Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same week the Post Office Department, noting "substantial" disagreement as to the battery-rejuvenation merits of AD-X2, withdrew a fraud order against it. Crowed Jess M. Ritchie, dauntless co-inventor and promoter of AD-X2: "We're ready to pour it into every battery in the country...
...bookkeeping as an after-hours sideline. He passed the CPA examinations at 21, became the nation's youngest accredited accountant. After founding his own auditing firm, he later took on the additional job of Virginia State auditor. Virginia remembers him for uncovering 100 cases of corruption and fraud, sending a county clerk and five county treasurers to jail, and setting up an annual system for county accounts that was so airtight that bonding companies slashed premiums for public officials...
...limousine headed back towards Manila, with a guard pointing a cocked carbine through the window into the rainy night, Magsaysay nervously cracked his knuckles, and predicted that he would get 60% of the votes if the election were free. He accused Quirino of hoping to stay in office by fraud and intimidation. If the election is stolen, said Magsaysay, "the Philippines will become a banana republic at the mercy of the Communists...
...fraud is so prevalent that the collectors resort to all kinds of ruses to catch those with hidden incomes. A French tax form asks: How many servants do you keep? What horsepower is your car? Do you own a pleasure boat or a vacation home? This sort of questioning, designed to establish the scale of living, occasionally catches a tax evader, but more often it affects the economy like the old window tax in England. There, people bricked up their windows; in France, they hide their savings under the mattress, thereby withholding their cash from useful investment...
...ends with his death in 1926 at the age of 52 while he was suspended upside down in a strait jacket in a huge tank of water (actually, Houdini died in a hospital of peritonitis). Other highlights: his arrest in Germany on the charge that his act was a fraud and his acquittal after demonstrating his abilities in a courtroom; his escapes from a strait jacket while dangling from a Times Square building, from a packing case lowered into the icy Detroit River, from an "escape-proof" cell in the Tower of London; his attempts, after the death...