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...people of North Dakota violently disagreed last week. Last month Governor William Langer was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government by soliciting party funds, in the guise of subscriptions to his administration newspaper, from Federal employes (TIME, June 25). A stay of sentence was granted by Federal Judge Andrew Miller pending the forthcoming primary elections, in which Governor Langer was a candidate to succeed himself...
...Governor Langer's political organ, the weekly Leader, he re moved the Governor from the local relief administration. Soon after, charges were filed that the Governor, as a Federal employe, had solicited party funds from other Federal employes. That, according to the law, was a conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. It took three weeks at Bismarck to try the case against Governor Langer. While he sat in a courtroom well-guarded against rioting, his wife Lydia Cady Langer, D. A. R. leader and daughter of the designer of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Museum of Natural...
...northwest Quebec, filed a Trade Commission registration in February covering an issue of 350,000 shares at $1 par. The Trade Commission charged that C. Morrison Smith & Co., underwriters of the issue, had sold some 45,000 shares at 65? by means of '"devices, schemes, or artifices to defraud, or by means of untrue statements of material facts. . . ." Among the charges was one to the effect that C. Morrison Smith & Co. had solicited one C. Henry Eilertsen of Philadelphia by telephone in April, declared that Golden Quebec shares would rise $1 within four weeks. Speculator Eilertsen, who is office...
...Chicago has made a Roman Holiday of the return of this 74-year-old man to the city he calls home. I do not know Mr. Insull, but, although I lost in his company, yet I feel his motive was not to defraud. He was a victim of the times. He is not the only one in these United States. . . . And how soon Chicago has forgotten Mr. Insult's benefits to the city!! This man is being crucified before he has an opportunity to testify...
Last week Daddy Warbucks was on trial "for conspiracy to defraud...