Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became a Dr. Benjamin Jones (who really was president of Northeast Mississippi Junior College), got himself a job as lieutenant of the guard in Texas' Huntsville Penitentiary. There, a prisoner recognized Ferdinand as the subject of a 1952 LIFE article on "The Master Impostor," but the agile fraud made a quick getaway...
...Dean has "impugned all our motives." On another occasion, Fitzgerald had CRIMSON photographers ejected from a committee meeting. He insists that, examinations or not, Cambridge residents should be given preference for teaching positions. With just as much rigor, he opposes the merit system, claiming that it is the "greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the people of Cambridge...
...your Dec. 17 People section, you printed a paragraph about me, stating that I had publicly announced that my book, The Outsider, was a fraud. What I actually said was that The Outsider is a fraud as a work of philosophy. When someone has written a book which expresses an intensely personal viewpoint, he is bound to feel a fraud when people hail it as "representing the younger generation, etc." Nevertheless, The Outsider was written with deadly serious intent...
...tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
...unsuccessfully last month for re-election against Republican Hugh Scott), as well as five Pennsylvania contractors. The indictment against Green charged that he received $10,000 and realized an extra $20,000 in insurance commissions from the contractors, and, as a member of the Armed Services Committee, practiced "fraud and deceptions" on the Army Corps of Engineers in connection with the construction of a $33 million Signal Corps depot in Tobyhanna...