Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further economies and improvement of tax collection; by measures against fraud; by the creation of a tax on exports; by a tax on Bourse operations; by an increase in the price of tobacco and an exceptional temporary tax on payments, the manner of the collection of which will be established by decree...
Press Agents Flayed. "The function of any publicity man is to emphasize favorable news for his clients, and to suppress unfavorable news. Such a man renders no service to the public interested in the truth. Publicity is a blatant fraud upon the public, and the publicity agent commits an outrage when he colors news to suit his client's wishes"-James Wright Brown, Publisher of Editor and Publisher...
...grandson of Andersen's original benefactor, Frederik VI, challenged the aged fabulist to a drinking bout. He accepted, but bribed a royal servitor to fill the silver cup passed to him with water. Some hours later, Frederik, by then in no mood to be trifled with, detected the fraud. '"Cheat! Will you pledge your King in water...
...Chile believed a plebiscite would satisfy its warlike rapacity; believed that the arbitrator's representative would be an accomplice in a fraud; believed that Pershing would serve as a docile instrument to cover electoral malfeasance...
...most interested." Senator Copeland resigned saying he had decided on a course which he had "contemplated for several weeks." Senator McNary, when informed of what was happening, exclaimed: "I make it a practice of investigating things eventually. It is not my habit to be associated with matters in which fraud or impracticability appears. Of course, I shall investigate this...