Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety of special accounting problems and economic mysteries which a certified public accountant may be called upon to solve is almost without limit. The discovery of fraud or the misappropriation of cash or merchandise is not, as is sometimes assumed, one of the prime objectives of an accountant's peculiar talents; but this sort of work is a frequently and important service to his clients...
...weight of Baltimore's powerful Roman Catholic hierarchy was brought to bear against the order. (The patient is not a Catholic, but a member of the Church of the Brethren.) The order "creates a terrifying precedent," complained the archdiocese's official Catholic Review. "An invitation to practice fraud and deceit," charged an anonymous group of Catholic lawyers. Theologian Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America denounced the order as "totalitarian, un-American and irreligious." Citing Pius XI ("Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects . . . where no crime has taken place"), Connell...
...easy to plunge ahead as if you were right without giving the other point of view." No one could ever accuse Cassandra of giving the other point of view on anything from dogs ("Man's best friend is a fake and a fraud, and the sooner he is taught to lay eggs or produce milk the better") to doctors ("I don't like their mumbo jumbo, their smooth, lying inefficiency...
...societies from Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture: 1) the Pueblo Indians are peaceable and cooperative, with little violent emotion; 2) the Dobu Islanders in the Pacific are suspicious, jealous of women and property; they spend their lives trying to get something for nothing by magic, theft or fraud; 3) the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest are highly competitive, but their rivalry consists in conspicuous consumption: burning up their blankets and even their houses to show off. Riesman asks the class which type the U.S. most resembles. Some say the Dobuan and some the Kwakiutl; almost none...
Federal Housing Administration and Justice Department officials were plainly worried about the congressional uproar over the housing scandals (TIME, April 26, July 12). Some Senators complained publicly that the Administration had done little to check fraud in the program. Last week Justice set the record straight. In the past 20 months it has obtained 74 criminal indictments against 136 promoters suspected of building and repair frauds -and won 67 convictions...