Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservation-conscious Americans have been disturbed by recent disclosures in Congress indicating that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates...
...adult gypsy is thought to be about that of a child of ten. Gypsies have never accomplished anything of great significance in writing, painting, musical composition, science or social organization . . . Society has always found the gypsies an ethnic puzzle and has tried ceaselessly to fit them, by force or fraud, piety or policy, coaxing or cruelty, into some framework of its own conception, but so far without success...
...justification of its veto threat, the Chiang Government claims that Outer Mongolia is not only a fraud and puppet of Soviet Russia, but also a part of China and hence subject to the control of the Nationalists when the day of return to the mainland finally comes. Yet the claim seems to have little basis in legal fact. For the Nationalist Government of China recognized the independence of Outer Mongolia at the end of the war and established diplomatic relations with...
...take the embarrassing position of questioning the propriety of the contract and of Adolphe Wenzell's role after the AEC had spent months defending the honor of both. Quickly seizing the political opportunities spawned by the AEC action. Democrats cried that the AEC had at last admitted fraud in the Dixon-Yates contract. Among the first to grab the ball was Estes Kefauver, who announced that his Senate Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee will begin new hearings this week on the Dixon-Yates question. Drawled hopeful Estes: "Before we are through, we may find a case of criminal conspiracy involving...
...France, where literature can be a hot front-page issue, the biggest story of the week-and the year's liveliest press brawl -raged around the blonde head of an eight-year-old poetess. Was little Minou Drouet a genius or a fraud...