Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insull family ran an enormous electric power empire in the 1920's. The disputed charges followed the collapse of the organization in the depression and include accusations of mail fraud and embezzlement...
There has lately been much discussion in student circles about that characteristic of Harvard undergraduates which we choose to call "indifference,"--a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world...
...when James Garfield was shot in the back by a deranged lawyer in the Washington railroad terminal and lay disabled for 80 days. During that time he performed only one official act, signing an extradition paper. The Cabinet tried to cope with such problems as post-office fraud scandals and sagging foreign relations, considered urging Vice President Chester Alan Arthur to take over the functions and authority of the President during his disability, but feared the legal implications. The Government drifted until Garfield died...
...carved himself out perhaps the most independent record of any member of Congress. Items: ¶ In 1947, Massachusetts' Senior Democratic Representative John McCormack handed Kennedy a petition for presidential clemency for Boston's Mayor Curley, who was just then being packed off to jail for mail fraud. Said McCormack: "Sign it." Kennedy refused-the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially after Kennedy beat him for control of the state Democratic Committee in a preconvention 1956 fight. At the national convention, it was McCormack who signaled to Sam Rayburn...
...bitterness of their third straight election defeat, Turkey's Republicans erupted with cries of "Fraud." Ex-President Ismet Inonu's party had quintupled its strength, won in a third of Turkey's provinces. But Premier Adnan Menderes' Democrats still held a better-than-2-to-1 margin, with 424 seats to 178 for the Republicans. Angrily the Republicans accused Menderes of "stealing" the election by scratching opposition voters' names from the rolls...