Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...checked the entry list and discovered that Winner Vitali belonged to no recognized club where his handicap could be checked. He tried to hold up payment of the winners' prize money, but was overruled by his tournament committee. No golfing gentlemen, they argued,t would participate in a fraud...
After four days of testimony. Subcommittee Chairman Chet Holafield summed up: "Undoubtedly there was waste in this program, as there is in any development of a new plane or weapon. I've seen no evidence of fraud or improper action . . . Mistakes made were made honestly under the pressure of the Korean emergency. Navy officers simply were caught in a gamble . . . to push ahead in search of a plane equal to the MIG, or wait until assured their new plane would be a success...
Although India's constitution guarantees religious freedom, the political boss of Madhya Pradesh, 78-year-old Ravishanker Shukla, is crusading against the Christians. First he appointed a committee of five Hindus to smell out examples of Christian subversion and of conversion by force or fraud. The committee began combing the state for testimony about Christian "spying," Christian threats, mission "dens of immorality...
Echoing Henry James, who was "haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world," Hoffman presents a new theory: that Marlowe was not murdered on May 30, 1953, but lived on to publish plays under the assumed name of William Shakespeare. To prove his theory--at times, it almost seems as if the idea were more axiom than theory to Mr. Hoffman--he has poked into old tomes and publication entry books, has listed 30 pages of parallel constructions in Shakespeare and Marlowe...
...insurance company's expense. Healed, Harper becomes a combat infantryman in World War II. He returns to find his cabin burned down, his girl married, and the landlord's wicked son in charge of the farm. When the son threatens to expose Harper's insurance fraud. Harper shoots him dead...