Word: defraud
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...report of the case against the woman who bore a child through artificial insemination. Did she commit an act "far less responsible and far less human than adultery," as the learned Archbishop of Canterbury claims? Does it "violate the exclusive union set up between husband and wife," and "defraud the child begotten, and deceive both his putative kinsmen and society at large"? If so, the archbishop has splotched the character of the Holy Ghost. Did Joseph sue Mary for adultery? The woman in the case should tell her husband that the child was a gift from...
...prosperity can be skimmed off state highway construction, the nation's booming, graft-prone major public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector of its own work, received an "exorbitant...
Documenting what could become a case of conspiracy to defraud the Government, Investigator Gore turned his evidence on Maurice Hutcheson's strictly personal activities over to the Justice Department...
...state for $19,000. In Frank Chapman's bank account were found such items of payment as $15,500 to Carpenter Boss Hutcheson, $26,968 to Chapman himself. $25,432 to Blaier, and similar amounts to two Indiana road officials (who are already under indictment for conspiracy to defraud and embezzle...
...Prevail, defraud me of my lovely prize. And what a signal victory: all hail, Great strategist, by whom no blood...