Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three times more than they challenged in the 1948 elections. The bulk of the questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held by the Communists, and some scattered others. But the electoral reform law itself (called everywhere the "fraud law") was so unpopular, the risks and difficulties of trying to oust 70 well-entrenched and improperly seated Communists from power so great, that the Christian Democrats feared to press their legal right, and concealed their own triumph. To this day. the facts of the ballot recount have not been...
...better-than-average President," said Mencken, and doing well "for a general." All this was a sign to his friends that Mencken, who has denounced every U.S. President since Teddy Roosevelt, is mellowing. Only once did Mencken unleash a hearty blast. General Douglas MacArthur, he said, is "a dreadful fraud, who seems to be fading satisfactorily...
...crime with all the vigor possible under the circumstances in which it holds office; and, if TIME should care to look up the actual record, you will have to agree that I was the Cuban executive who made the most consistent and the most fundamental efforts to curb laxity, fraud and disorganization in the management of the public funds...
...Also in 1939 (Weiss v. U.S., mail fraud), that the ban on wiretap evidence applied to intrastate as well as interstate messages, because "both sorts pass indiscriminately over the same wires...
Later, Prince Esterhazy offered a ransom for the skull. Rosenbaum solemnly sent a random substitute which was duly buried with Haydn's bones. The prince never paid the promised ransom, but Rosenbaum had the last laugh, confessed the fraud in pale glee on his deathbed. He passed the relic to a friend, with the request that it be placed eventually in the museum of Vienna's ultra-respectable Society of the Friends of Music. After long delays, the skull reached the museum in 1895, where it rests today in a glass case...