Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Means crockery was only minor graft in the Department of Justice where he was lodged under Daugherty. He was convicted of taking a bribe from two culprits in a mail fraud case which the Department discovered. He was convicted of conspiring to obtain and sell Federal permits for whiskey withdrawals. He was charged with forgery of a Senator's name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year...
...speculator, a certain Dr. Fred Puleston* is violently convinced of fraud. In righteous indignation he marshals evidence to prove "that bleary old Műnchausen . . . an unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were...
Police had to defend the bulky tax books from irate citizens who wanted to see how much their neighbors were paying. Everyone suspected discrimination, fraud. A queue of 20,000 indignants, four abreast, milled and chafed in the tax office out the door, far down the street. All taxes had to be paid by May i, to avoid penalties. Lawyers said there was no escape except through changing the law retroactively and getting refunds...
...great but latterly self-belittled state of Indiana. Dr. Osborn evinced his faith in Indiana when, in 1926, he asked President Coolidge to let him occupy a cell in Atlanta Penitentiary as substitute for Indiana's Governor, Warren T. McCray (see CORRUPTION), who had been jailed for mail fraud. Said generous Dr. Osborn: "I have nothing to do, I have no dependents and I am used to more hardships than a prison entails...
...feel, this dame in the box, with the accordion chin, all dressed up in silk and diamonds, if ... she found her path obstructed by a real Marguerite? . . . She can shed crocodile tears over the false Marguerite on the stage-Shed some real tears over the real ones, you big fraud...