Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold night in January 1919, eight reckless Tennessee soldiers (one of them Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville publisher who later went to jail for conspiring to defraud the Asheville, N. C. Central Bank & Trust Co. of over $1,300,000) failed in a self-appointed, harebrained attempt to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm from his Netherlands retreat. Censured by General John J. Pershing. they swore among themselves not to tell their story for 15 years. Three weeks ago the Saturday Evening Post featured their escapade as told to Truman Hudson Alexander, veteran Nashville Teunessean columnist who had diligently tried since 1934 to ferret...
Convicted by an Indianapolis Federal Grand Jury of conspiracy to defraud through the mails, Clarence Joseph Morley, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth Penitentiary...
...Booth Dickinson that there would be no more indictments. The time had come to name names. Promptly Judge Dickinson, 79, for 22 years a member, of the Federal judiciary, ordered the previous indictments made public, issued bench warrants for twelve persons on four counts for using the mails to defraud and two counts of conspiracy. In the dozen were such prominent Philadelphians...
Indicted. Clarence Joseph Morley, 67, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado; for using the mails to defraud investors in his Indianapolis brokerage firm; in Indianapolis...
...Charles Urschel, bluntly telling a local company to pay no attention to the late NRA, restraining the U. S. from collecting coal taxes under the late Guffey Act. Last week he presided at the trial of Lonzo Carl Giles, onetime Federal Relief administrator in Oklahoma, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government by countenancing "phony" bids for the purchase of FERA mules...