Word: fraud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Deputy Attorney-General for the State: "The cornerstone of the sale of kosher meat products is the belief of hundreds of thousands of people that the word 'kosher' has a meaning. . . . They eat or abstain from meat according to conscientious convictions. Whatever violates these convictions, either by force or fraud, is a matter of public interest and affects the good order of the State...
...prize offered by the "Scientific American" for proof of definite spirit manifestations still remains with that magazine. A year ago, a woman medium almost won, but when the investigators found that the cards on which the spirits wrote were not those provided by the committee, she was declared a fraud. More recently, the wife of a Boston physician failed to satisfy the investigating committee that she possessed psychic powers...
...nothing more important to attack. Fearful as is the American electorate that somewhere votes are being bought and the will of the "Peepul" defeated, and vague as is the average man's knowledge of the intricacies of political machinery, the subject never fails to arouse suspicion of dishonesty, graft, fraud, and all the other manias that beset the zealous voter...
...precise nature of the causes of the crash were obscure. A warrant for his arrest on a charge of fraud was, however, issued; but the bird had flown, allegedly with securities of high value. The Austrian State said that if he deposited $4,200,000, he could return unmolested...
...acquitted last week, after a dramatic trial lasting nearly two weeks before Judge McClintic (of Charleston, W. Va.), sitting in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, of the charge of bribing, in 1922, a juror in the so-called Durrell-Gregory mail-fraud case. Fallen conducted his own defense, alleged that he was the victim of a far-reaching conspiracy on the part of certain editors and reporters of the New York American, acting under the personal orders of William Randolph Hearst, because he (Fallon) had in his possession the birth certificates...