Word: defraud
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...cropper to the tune of $750,000,000, most of it lost by smalltime investors-the U. S. was ready to elect a New Deal, to whom Samuel Insull and his ill-reputed holding companies were anathema. Even though Insull was eventually acquitted of using the mails to defraud, of embezzlement and of violating the Bankruptcy Act, the emotion generated by the Insull crash made it possible for Franklin Roosevelt to secure from Congress a "death sentence" for utility holding companies...
...Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...
...Lilienthal, meeting according to custom as a quorum in Chairman Morgan's absence, agreed to have the value of the claims adjudicated by a special "conciliator" instead of by a condemnation commission. They capitulated when Chairman Morgan, who asserted that the claims represented a bald attempt to "defraud" the Government, got Secretary Ickes to refuse the loan of Director John W. Finch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines as conciliator, insisted on a condemnation commission. When last week, nearly three months after the start of hearings during which witnesses for the Berry interests presented evidence by which...
...results were far-reaching. First Morgan stopped a particularly gross theft of Seneca lands, when shysters, with New York Senate connivance, rum and $200,000 in bribes, tried to defraud the Indians by paying $1.67 an acre for land worth $16. Then he published his classic study that gave for the first time "the real structure and principles of the League of the Iroquois." The book launched him on a career that made him ''the father of American anthropology" and "the greatest sociologist of the last century...
...Father Cox's contest look right to the U. S. Post Office Department. Day before the "Garden Stakes" was to close, Father Cox was arrested on charges of Pittsburgh's U. S. Attorney, released on $3,000 bond. He was accused of 1) using the mails to defraud; 2) conducting a lottery. Angry, red-faced Father Cox protested that he had talked with Postmaster General Farley before starting his contest, had been told to go ahead. Cried he: "They'll have to call out the troops first before I fail these good people...