Word: defrauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken, white-haired old man staggered into the Chicago federal courtroom the other day to take his stand in defense of charges to use the mails to defraud in the $100,000,000 sale of stocks of the Corporation Securities Company of Chicago. Mr. Insull's excuse for the greatest of all exploitations of the American people is that he was following the "general attitude" of big business in 1930, backed by the statement of President Hoover that business in America was on a sound and prosperous basis. He further explains that he was doing no more in expanding than...
...Northern Illinois judicial district into a new custom by donning the first black robes ever to be worn in Chicago. Then he stepped into the courtroom to open case No. 26,900, the United States of America v. Samuel Insull and 16 codefendants. The charge: using the mails to defraud in the selling of $143,000,000 of securities in the Insull-controlled Corporation Securities...
...show started last week when the North Dakota Supreme Court issued an order ousting Governor Langer from the office to which he was elected in 1932. According to the State court, Langer was disqualified because in Federal Court last month he had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. out of $179.50 in relief funds, had been fined $10.000, sentenced to 18 months in jail (TIME, June 25). Before he was ousted Governor Langer declared martial law, summoned a special session of the Legislature...
...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...