Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other in the nice-Nellie manner of the advertising campaign—with occasional forays that were not so nice, but not so noticeable to the layman, either. Now the battle has exploded in a big way: in Boston a Federal grand jury indicted Procter & Gamble for using the mails to defraud. By the terms of a 57-page, 40-count indictment this turns out to mean bribing various Lever Bros, employes with aliases like "Babe," "Red" and "Chick" to betray production, sales and advertising secrets "against the peace and dignity...
Around Bismarck, whence he came, Bill Langer has a stanch following of voters who feel that he is just as good as the next man. They twice elected him Governor. When he was tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government in administering relief, one jury convicted him, another disagreed, a third set him free. But when his people sent him to the Senate last year, a group of North Dakota citizens protested...
...that Hillman "with stealthy efforts" was trying to make a deal with A.F. of L., was perpetrating "intolerable conditions that have retarded the progress of this industry." Congressman Howard Worth Smith demanded that A.F. of L. and the labor division of OPM (Mr. Hillman) be indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Justice's trust-busting Thurman Wesley Arnold pawed the ground. The Truman Committee in the Senate, investigating the defense program, got ready to charge...
Last week postal inspectors nabbed George Apley's successor, got him indicted for using the mails to defraud "a certain class of persons, to wit, unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused of having turned his correspondence with intellectual females into courtships, his courtships into loans to pay off a mortgage on a nonexistent warehouse in Fairfield, Conn...
...Back came not only genealogical tables but a nice coat of arms. Having established after a four-way check that there is no Ickes coat of arms, Honest Angry Harold turned the tables over to the Department of Justice, had the men arrested for using the mails to defraud...