Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers on the station into cliques, shaken the loyalties of thousands of cadets in training. Now the feud between Colonel William Abbott Robertson, frosty commanding officer of the base, and Colonel Joseph James Canella, brawny, fun-loving base quartermaster, hit its climax. Colonel Canella was indicted for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government...
...Grand Jury was concerned, "The Hopkins Letter" was now "The Briggs Letter." Fat-faced little George N. Briggs, grammarian to Secretary Harold L. Ickes, was indicted for forgery, for using the mails to defraud and for obtaining money under false pretenses...
Indicted: National Bronze's bespectacled mustached President John L. Schmel-ler; his brother Frank, general manager-another brother, Edward, chief metallurgist; four other top company officials, and the company itself. The charge-conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by selling defective castings to the Packard Motor Car Co. for use in Rolls-Royce airplane motors. The Schmellers and the others were ousted from the company and tried last week in Cleveland's Federal Court. There, more than 100 witnesses minutely detailed the plot against...
Comer, Goner. In Chicago, E. J. Comer, author of a book warning the public against deceitful salesmen, was indicted for using the mails to defraud...
...strong exceptions. In State headquarters hang the pictures of every prominent Republican, from Abraham Lincoln on. The only ones missing are onetime Governor Ed Jackson, who was tried and acquitted of bribery; the late Governor Warren T. McCray, who served a Federal prison sentence for using the mails to defraud-and Wendell Willkie. . . . Yet among Indiana voters, Willkie has greater support than any other potential 1944 candidate...