Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Marmon's post. It was his first marriage. Miss Frederick's fifth. Her previous husbands: Frank M. Andrews, Manhattan architect (divorced); Willard Mack, famed actor-playwright (divorced); Dr. Charles Rutherford, Seattle doctor (divorced); Hugh Chisholm Leighton, Los Angeles hotelman who obtained an annulment on charges of fraud and non-consummation...
...About that time he was also touring the U. S. as X. La Motte Sage, giving exhibitions of hypnotism. This led to The Philosophy of Personal Influence, distributed by mail from Rochester, which offered courses in hypnotism, and earned him & associates $1,500,000 before postal inspectors, suspecting fraud, forced the "New York Institute of Science" to quit. Another Rochester enterprise called the New York Institute of Physicians & Surgeons sold cure-alls called" "Vitaopathy"' in the U. S.. "Radiopathy" in Mexico and South America. At a certain hour of certain days Radiopathy customers took certain pills while staring...
...famed plagiarism suits over Strange Interlude and Of Thee I Sing, in both of which he rendered decisions for the defendants. He earned the vacation he devoted to Ulysses by presiding last spring at the longest criminal case in the history of U. S. jurisprudence, the 109-day fraud trial of the promoters of the National Diversified Corp. who bilked Roman Catholic clergymen and others out of $3,000,000 to make talkie pictures (TIME, July...
...Paris, France a Government clerk named Chazarin sued his wife for "connubial fraud," asserted that he had purchased a ticket in the national lottery for $6, won a $3,000 prize, discovered that frugal Mme Chazarin had sold his ticket to a baker...
...part of Detroit's bank officials; 2) that there was no evidence of "smart money" withdrawn prior to the St. Valentine's Day closing; and 3) "most powerfully am I urged to conclude that the Government would not permit an insolvent bank to operate in fraud of its citizens, and I am constrained to find that the two national banks . . . were solvent." It was a thorough whitewash of Detroit's banks & bankers...