Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough to keep his Southern colleagues from staging one of those filibusters that show the most nauseating side of the Dixie element that controls the Democratic Party in Congress ... a fraud." Eisenhower Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, speaking to a Maine audience last week, was quick to take the same line: "Here was a strange drama in which those persons and organizations who normally advocate civil rights deserted those millio young Senator Church suddenly discovered that, at the insistence of Minnesota...
...months of intermittent rioting and revolt during which six governments tumbled and two election attempts failed. Mild-mannered Dr. François Duvalier swept the countryside, rolled over the city majorities won by Planter Louis Déjoie, and emerged with 71% of the 950,000 votes cast. Some fraud was unquestionably committed; e.g., primitive, roadless La Gonave Island, with 13,300 voters in 1950, reported 18,941 Duvalier ballots to 463 for Déjoie. A hard-working doctor who has spent years working to eliminate yaws in Haiti's backlands, Duvalier announced that he would promptly...
Last year a federal court in Pittsburgh found Murray Kram guilty on ten counts of mail fraud, socked him with a $4,500 fine, three months in jail and five years' probation. Last week, ruling that there was "hardly a scintilla" of evidence that Murray had misled his customers, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision. Despite the court's action, Murray Kram, 28, felt that the mail business was getting too uncomfortable. But he already had a new, eminently legal career in mind: aiding churches as a professional fund raiser, at 15% of the gross...
...popular opinion was immediately and instinctively against seeming to condone homosexuality, an important minority of staid and conservative opinion favored changes in the law. The Times declared: "Adult sexual behavior not involving minors, force, fraud or public indecency belongs to the realm of private conduct, not of criminal law." Said the Spectator: "The present law on this point is utterly irrational and illogical." The London Economist thought that "private homosexual behavior between adults does no medical harm to themselves and no harm of any sort to others." Also in support of changing the law were the Church of England, which...
Last week Vintner Korn was in jail in Wiesbaden awaiting trial. If convicted of fraud, he faces up to ten years at hard labor. To German winegrowers, the law-if anything-is too lenient. At their annual convention at Wiirzburg, they denounced Korn's alchemy as "Schweinerei" (swinishness), demanded harsher penalties against "gottverdammte Weinpanscher und Weinfaelscher" (wine waterers and wine phoniers). They fret that if Korn's secret is revealed in detail at the trial, the publicity may encourage others to follow his example. Said a Bonn barkeep: "If it's that easy to make good Niersteiner...