Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most campaigns, the 1952 presidential campaign began with polite debate and an implied treaty of mutual respect. Last week the air waves crackled with television scowls and such words as "bigotry", "fraud", and "lies." In its climax, the 1952 campaign was a strident and bitter conflict...
...three months of campaigning were part of a crisis in U.S. history, part of a deep struggle to align the U.S. with the responsibilities, opportunities and dangers of the newest phase of its existence-world leadership in the cold war with Communism. The presidential election would be a fraud itself if it did not somehow reflect this conflict...
...Wire Rope into one of the largest manufacturing plants of its kind in the world, with an estimated worth of $50 million. But the more prosperous Wire Rope grew, the more unhappy former stockholders became In 1946, they filed suit to have the 1937 sale annulled on charges of fraud. An investigation of Judge Johnson's court by a House subcommittee (headed by Estes Kefauver) gave them plenty of ammunition. Charged the subcommittee: "This wicked, evil and mendacious judge" had "corruptly, connivingly and deliberately" conspired with Bethlehem to sell it the company. Into Judge Johnson's pocket...
Last January, after taking 4,943 pages of evidence, a Special Master of Federal Court agreed with the House subcommittee; the Master recommended that the 1937 sale be annulled on grounds of fraud. Last week in Scranton, Federal Judge Albert L. Watson did just that. Said he: "Only [thus] can the court be certain that all defrauded parties will have been restored to their rights." Bethlehem, which expects to appeal, will hold the company in "constructive trusteeship" for the "rightful owners," the original stockholders...
...middle-class countrymen (Rotting Hill). Like Bernard Shaw, he outraged Britons in the '303 by following the trail of a sawdust Caesar, Adolf Hitler. But in 1937, when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping the adhesive tape of romance and pretension from the Spanish civil war, The Revenge for Love so stung drawing-room leftists that the book was boycotted with silence in Britain, not even published in the U.S. Read with the hindsight...