Word: defrauding
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Presently surrendering to U. S. authorities, genial Promoter Bob found juries no more of a problem than the speculators he had cajoled. No less than three juries split over the question of whether or not he had used the mails to defraud. The case was finally nol-prossed...
Last month Promoter Bob, his hair thinner but his personality still as bland as ever, was in new trouble. Again he went on trial in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge...
Died. Warren T. McCray, 73, banker, stockman, onetime (1921-24) Republican Governor of Indiana; after a heart attack; at Kentland, Ind. Convicted of using the mails to defraud, he spent three years in Atlanta before being paroled in 1927, received a Christmas pardon from President Hoover...
Quipped LaGuardia, remembering that only last December Mayor Ellenstein was indicted for conspiracy to defraud his own city in the purchase of land for Newark Airport: "Poor Meyer is so troubled with . . . the pickle...
...counterpart of Franklin Roosevelt, once hailed the latter's plan to New Dealize the U. S. Supreme Court as "the greatest advance for democracy in our lifetime." Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to investigate not only him but also the Pennsylvania Supreme Court...