Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter part of Mr. Laurie's book that is really engrossing. There he deals with the scientific aids--the microscope, X-rays, ultra-violet light--in the attribution of authorship and in the detection of forgeries. Error and fraud are bogeys not always easy to exorcise, and even genuine doubt is disturbing, as Mr. Laurie shows in his discussion of "La Belle Ferronniere," by Leonardo da Vinci. There were two contenders for genuineness, one in the Louvre (the more familiar) and the other in the Hahn collection. A trial took place in New York, but the jury disagreed. Mr. Laurie...
...news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself in person against the U. S. Government's charge that he is a liar, cheat and fraud...
...Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud. But then there was no jury for that smart little lawyer to work on. He got a real setback in 1929 when, despite tears and eloquence, a jury convicted Fall of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Mr. Doheny. But five months later Lawyer Hogan triumphantly vindicated himself by persuading...
Within two months after the last skyrocket boomed at the 1929 dedication, the whole inflated Foshay superstructure of utility, finance and real estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. Last week Wilbur Burton Foshay was in Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt...
...pretext that they constituted evidence of fraud, Counsel Jackson dragged into the first week's spotlight two sets of facts which had small bearing on the case at hand, large bearing on Mr. Mellon's reputation. One was that in 1931 Mr. Mellon had twice sold stocks short-an entirely legitimate operation except that the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to bolster a falling securities market. Private Secretary Johnson explained that, while they were not on deposit with his broker, Mr. Mellon held more than enough shares in his portfolio to cover his short position...