Word: defrauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possess the documents, have lived off one Baker Heir after another. A Glenview, Ill. couple supported the Renicks for ten months before they became suspicious, snooped vainly for the documents, hunted up other victims, finally had the Renicks haled into court on a charge of using the mails to defraud...
...interview with swart, little Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. "I can never become President," said this onetime Cuban Army sergeant. "The people cannot be deprived of their politics. But if we were to hold elections soon they could not beimpartial. Such elections would merely appear to be a maneuver to defraud the will of the people. I believe in the fullest democracy, but at times it is out of the question. I do not believe in dictatorship, yet some peoples need good dictatorship. . . . We must buy back some of our land. . . . But we mustn't injure anybody's interest...
...have been watching with great interest the fight being waged against public utility holding company legislation. I have watched the use of investors' money to make the investor believe that the efforts of government to protect him are designed to defraud him. I have seen much of the propaganda . . . to exploit the most far-fetched and fallacious fears . . . enough to be as unimpressed by it as I was by the similar effort to stir up the country against the Securities Exchange bill last spring...
...most vulnerable member. Postmaster General Farley. Charges hurled against "General" Farley by "Kingfish" Long were that he gave away free stamps (TIME, Jan. 21), was interested in a race track wire service, had accepted party funds from a man about to be tried for using the mails to defraud, had intervened to save a Kansas City gangster and a banking group, which included Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis and his brother, from Federal prosecution, had personally profited from PWA contracts. Just after Senator Long's running fight with Senator Robinson in the Senate last week, the Post Offices & Post...
...raised up a bumper crop of rich men who were thoroughly scared. In 1926 Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny reputedly paid Lawyer Hogan $1,000,000 for persuading a Washington jury to acquit him and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud. But then there was no jury for that smart little lawyer to work...