Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of a constituent convention, he explained, is still being studied. But before the elections a new voting law will be drawn "to replace the fraud" enacted under the regime of Juan Perón. To prove his impartiality, Aramburu emphasized that neither he nor any member of the present provisional government will be eligible to run for office...
...shares in tiny Keystone Oil Co. As it turned out, Keystone was more talk than oil. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Government's watchdog over securities markets, filed charges against Chicago Promoter Harry G. Ames, 61, on 14 counts of mail fraud and failure to comply with SEC regulations. The Keystone case,, coming after the collapse of Bellanca stock (TIME, June 25) and indictment of Walter F. Tellier (TIME, May 7), pointed up a growing debate in the U.S. securities industry: Is SEC doing a good job of policing the nation's securities...
...first time in years to take advantage of the new climate. Massachusetts Republican Donald Nicholson said he was for "spending money for our own defense without taking care of these foreigners." Louisiana's Democratic Representative George Long (Huey's brother) described foreign aid as "the greatest fraud since money became a medium of exchange." Georgia's Democratic Representative Iris Blitch won an ovation as she promised: "I will vote for every amendment to cut the amount of foreign aid, and then I will vote against the bill itself." Ohio's Wayne Hays said: "I haven...
Novelist Moore, for the most part, lets his characters describe each other with merciless Irish precision. Judith Hearne, alas, is "a boozer," "an ould fraud," and on one "day to end all," she is jostled from her waking daydream by the discovery that the "American" Madden is not rich and does not want to marry her. The only fortune he ever made was compensation for being run down by a city bus, and he wanted the old maid's money to start a "hamburg joint" for Yankee tourists...
...laws be drafted to penalize homosexuality with children or when it affronts public decency, involves assault, violence, fraud or duress. In assessing penalty, "regard shall be paid to the physical and psychological condition of the offender...