Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend came Saturday when Dartmouth editors printed parodies of the Crime in their Hanover offices and brought them to Cambridge in little brown suitcases. But a CRIMSON operative, dispatched to Hanover last Wednesday to ferret out news of a possible parody, returned with conclusive evidence of the forthcoming fraud. In Saturday's issue of the genuine Crime appeared a story warning readers of the hoax...
Reporter Cahn took the results of his investigation to the police and FBI. Ge Bauer and Newton were quickly picked up and released on bail to await trial for fraud. When police examined a Doodlebug, they found no plutonium, no delicate electronic mechanism. The Doodlebug was just a piece of war-surplus radio equipment that could be bought for $3.50. There had been one slight" change; flashlight batteries had been installed to light up the bulbs when the knobs were turned...
...inspectors that 67% of the death claims were rejected, and 24% brought payments of $10 or less. Among the small-print conditions on Westminster health inSurance: policyholders were insured against chicken pox, mumps and measles-provided they were over 60 and under 80. Westminster and Koolish were indicted for fraud in 1948, but the charge was" dropped because the indictment was faultily drawn. To such charges, Koolish, who gave up punch-boards years ago, says: "That's going back a long way." Now one of his major interests is Empire Industries, a company specializing in direct-mail promotion...
...months the House Judiciary subcommittee, headed by Kentucky's Democratic Representative Frank L. Chelf, studied the 1946 Kansas City, Mo. vote fraud case. The question that interested the subcommittee: Did the Department of Justice do what it should have done about the charges that fraud contributed to the Democratic primary defeat of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter by Harry Truman's candidate, Enos Axtell...
When Kansas-born Earl Browder, No. 1 open Communist in the U.S., was freed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 after serving 14 months of a four-year term for passport fraud, the comrades and New Dealers cheered F.D.R.'s magnanimity...