Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Secretary Fall had not used fraud to induce President Harding to place the Naval oil reserves under his control...
...That the payment of $100,000 (made without security, carried in a black satchel instead of conveyed in the usual channels, concerning which no records were kept and having for receipt a note with its signature torn off) was "contra bonos mores," "a fraud upon the United States," "a colossal infamy regardless of whether it was a bribe, a gift or a loan...
...able to command. The word was 'Rayon.' But when I pulled down the alleged unabridged dictionary on my desk, I searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President in this instance amounted to fraud, but it was noticed that this was the second attempt this month to capitalize Mr. Coolidge in a stock-selling campaign. The first attempt was made by the De Forest Phonofilm Corporation, which is now under investigation (TIME, May 18, THE PRESS). Annoyance at the White House became perceptible...
Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene could win their case for the U. S., could effect the cancellation of Sinclair's lease, if they could prove that fraud entered into the making of the lease. Between the time the Senate quit investigating and the time the Cheyenne trial began, these two eminent lawyers picked up one significantly strong scent. They discovered that a U. S. combine had sold 33,333,333 barrels of oil to a Canadian oil company for $1.50 per barrel, that the Canadian company had resold the oil to another U. S. Company for $1.75 per barrel. Then...
Unexpectedly, the Special Federal Grand Jury in the District of Columbia indicted Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. of oil and gas lands in his home state. The alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler...