Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction for the murder: the jury's verdict, under a useful Scots law, was "Not Proven." But he went to prison for forgery, and after a year, emerged to elope with 17-year-old Isobel Bonar. The honeymoon was scarcely over when the young couple were indicted for fraud. Isobel was acquitted; Donald got nine more months...
Editorially, Jubilee has a calmness that other religious publications might envy, but the editors' religious premises are nonetheless uncompromising. Said Editor Rice: "[The people] we cover are the heroic, the altruistic, the honest, the holy -instead of the glorified confidence man and the lovable fraud who get so much space these days...
...Quinn was indicted in 1952 on charges of accepting fees, while a Democratic Congressman, to represent clients in tax fraud cases before the Internal Revenue Bureau...
...thought to be the missing link in the evolution of man, was no older than the oldest British citizen or the ape. Dismayed anthropologists found that the Piltdown skull was the concotion of the jawbone of a modern ape with the skull of a modern man--the most colossal fraud over to be executed in the fossil world. Insisted dumfounded Hallam L. Movius, associate professor, of Anthropology: "Most people in the field are virtuous, honest...
Died. Walter Edward ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, 78, legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets...