Word: defraud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convicting ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was a speedy matter-it took a federal jury less than two hours to find him guilty of taking bribes from wartime Munitions Makers Henry & Murray Garsson and conspiring to defraud the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947 et seq.). But getting Handy Andy to serve his prison sentence of eight months to two years was not so easy...
...Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
...sent to the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. for using the mails to defraud. When in Washington as Congressman from the 11th District (Cambridge and Somerville). Curley had been the nominal president of the Engineer's Group, Inc., a company dedicated to the purpose of getting government contracts for small businesses. The Truman Committee, investigating the Group, caught up with the promoter James G. Fuller, a notorious confidence man. In the proceedings, it was found that Curley had accepted a $3500 check for services along the way. Therefore, in a trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector...
...Parnell Thomas, 53, chairman-in-eclipse of the House Un-American Activities Committee, came down with another attack of gastrointestinal trouble. But he would probably be well enough by Jan. 10 to show up for his trial in federal court in Washington on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government...
This week the grand jury indicted Thomas and his onetime secretary, Helen Campbell, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. It charged that for five years they had padded his office payroll so that salaries paid to two fictitious employees could be routed to Thomas' bank account. Thomas was accused of 34 instances of wrongdoing. If convicted, he would be liable to a maximum sentence of 32 years in prison, $40,000 fines, or both...