Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan's nominal commander, disliked him, disapproved of his aims and methods. But Morgan's gallantry and success in raiding through Kentucky and Ohio soon made him a bogeyman to the North, a hero to the South. One of his tricks was to capture a telegraph station, send fake messages to foil the enemy. Once he wired to his disgruntled pursuer: "Good morning, Jerry! This telegraph is a great institution. You should destroy it as it keeps me too well posted...
...falls in love with somebody else, both want a divorce to remarry. John goes to a friendly lawyer, a divorce specialist. He discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife's lawyer get the evidence, sue him. (If both John and Mary commit adultery, English law would punish them by never giving either a divorce.) Gritting his teeth, John goes through with it, finding an agency where he can hire...
While the late Alexandre Stavisky was pawning fake royal emeralds and cheating at baccarat in 1929, French politicians were having their nightmares about the Hanau Case. Last week French Justice, nearly paralyzed by the Stavisky Case, succeeded at least in warming over the Hanau Case...
Five Government witnesses appeared and put it up to the jury: Did it not appear that Citizen Mellon had claimed a fake loss of $5,678,000 on Pittsburgh Coal Co. stock and of $402,000 on Western Public Service Co.? That his gross income was $9,213,000 and not $6,759,000 as reported? That his net income was $7,767,000 instead of $5,553,000? That he should have paid an income tax of $1,364,000 instead of $648,000? That he had "unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, feloniously and fraudulently attempted to defeat and evade...
...Brooklyn, Manhattan and Binghamton, N. Y. last week the Government quietly collared ten people who, it charged, had set out to plaster the country with $2,000,000 worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have...