Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quota of 15? per member. Responses came in in apologetic driblets, but they added up to $11,490 in addition to the $21,000 already in hand for a lobby which no longer existed. That transaction, charged Counsel Sullivan, constituted a plain case of using the mails to defraud. To questions about it, flushed and flustered Dr. Townsend sullenly pleaded ignorance. Finally he asked for a five-minute recess, went out to pace the corridor. The committee adjourned until 2:30 p. m. At that hour Dr. Townsend did not reappear. His personal attorney, Sheridan Downey, pertly announced that...
...damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
...last week met Board President Samuel Harden Church and his fellow trustees of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Among them were five ex-officio members: Pittsburgh's rumpus-raising Mayor William Nissley McNair; Councilman Robert Garland, who is currently under indictment in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud; Councilman Cornelius D. Scully, whose election is challenged by the Mayor; Councilman Walter R. Demmler and Councilman Charles P. Anderson. Their purpose: to elect a president of Carnegie Tech to succeed aging, ailing Dr. Thomas Stockham Baker...
...investigated, and grand juries have probed. Nine months ago Colonel Alexander Elliot Williams, onetime Assistant to the Quartermaster General, was cashiered for accepting a "loan" from a salesman on a large automobile contract (TIME, June 3). Two months ago Colonel Williams and the Silvermans were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the same contract...
...just three officers, directors and stockholders of Townsend Old Age Revolving Pensions Ltd.: Dr. Francis E. Townsend, Secretary-Treasurer Clements and Walter L. Townsend, a brother of Dr. Townsend. The ostensible purpose of the House investigation is to determine whether Messrs. Townsend & Clements might be using the mails to defraud their followers, whether any of their income is being spent in political campaigns in violation of the Corrupt Practices...