Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receive 64% of the chamber seats, a clear working majority. At election time the Reds challenged so many ballots that the Demo-Christians fell just 55,000 votes short of earning the electoral bonus; the law itself proved so unpopular that it is widely known as the legge truffa (fraud...
Undoubtedly the high point of the football dominated fall came with a headline on a fake CRIMSON to the effect that Princeton football coach Roper had died during the game with Harvard. This fraud issue greeted the 54,000 fans packed into the Stadium after the Tiger had convincingly beaten Harvard. The upshot of the affair was that Princeton formally, and with the wounded pride which comes with unprovoked criticism, severed athletic connections with Harvard...
...prodded the case to life again. A second grand jury went into action, confirmed more of the P-D's expose. Early this year four union racketeers were convicted, and sentenced to from ten to twelve years in prison. Altogether, 34 others have been indicted for everything from fraud and racketeering by extortion to perjury...
Storm No. 2. Hardly had the dust settled when a storm broke around another big company, the bankrupt Texas Mutual Co. Two appeals court justices accused Texas Mutual of "Ponzi-like manipulations" and called the State Insurance Commission guilty of "fraud if not criminal laxity" for not doing anything about it. Texas Mutual was organized in 1949 by Leslie Lowry, ex-mayor of Beaumont (ousted by recall), and his brother Paul. They started with $500 of their own cash and $19,500 borrowed. To expand their assets, said the court, the Lowry boys bought (with notes, no cash) a shabby...
Like Cohn, Juliana said that he had not caught the importance of the word "alone" in the questioning of Stevens. Said Army Counsel Welch: "It was unfortunate that the two men who held the key to this small fraud . . . failed to hear that word 'alone...