Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cummings announced that he was going to prove that Mr. Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, had been guilty of tax crookery (TIME, March 19, et seq.). It was alleged that Mr. Mellon had cheated the Government out of $716,000 worth of income taxes in 1931 by fake stock transfers and bogus losses. Two months later the case was brought before a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh. The jury refused to indict its rich fellow-citizen...
Dazzled by double spinners, triple reverses, fake forwards and lateral-pass combinations, in which as many as six men handled the ball, Tulane was caught flat-footed against Andy Kerr's dexterous Colgate team...
...Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...
When proof of his new pictures' authenticity did not arrive, Mr. Joseloff consulted art experts, confirmed his worst suspicions. Last week, after experts testified that Mr. Joseloff's pictures were fake, a Manhattan Supreme Court handed down a judgment of $26,625 against the International Art Galleries. Mr. Joseloff kept his pictures, which one testifying expert thought were worth as much...
Last week, to fight such fake concerns, a committee was organized at the Lambs Club, Manhattan. Members were such big radio-earners as Frank Crumit, Jazzmen Johnny Green and Mark Warnow, Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor ("The Voice of Experience"). At first meeting they reviewed many an instance where innocents had been hoaxed by promising advertisements ("Be a Star in Six Weeks," "A Radio Job for Life"). Many had paid fancy fees on the assurance that a high-priced engagement automatically went with a diploma. The new committee proceeded to chronicle such cases, to warn the public that no authorized "radio...