Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most horrible mistake is the Young Progressive's history occurred in the fall of 1949 December 6 to be exact. That night the Y.P.'s accused the Combined Charities Drive of "deliberate fraud and misrepresentation" and two hours afterwards had to admit they were entirely wrong. The Club charged that the Student Council in a "deliberate design to misrepresent" has asked the name of one of the six groups on the Combined Charities list...
...that Eisenhower was responsible for the Berlin blockade in 1948, said Dewey, was "the most shocking exhibition of hypocrisy and downright fraud." Dewey, an accomplished television speaker, had a little show prepared to make his point. He cracked a raw egg into an ash tray. This, he said, symbolized the "mess" the politicians made of the German situation. Then, said Dewey, the politicians ordered Eisenhower: "General, you put that yolk back into...
Truman praised North Dakota's nominally Republican Senator William ("Wild Bill") Langer, who was traveling on the Truman train. Langer has stood ace high with Truman ever since 1947 when he cast the deciding vote in committee against Senate investigation of the Kansas City vote fraud...
...Advertised. In Atlantic City, Cornelius McGee was fined $100 for fraud after he was caught selling catnip cigarettes as marijuana...
Even in West Virginia's Kanawha County, where corrupt elections are no surprise, the primary last May was a standout. The minute the Charleston Gazette (circ. 86,500) saw the returns, it smelled fraud. Many precincts in the capital's county showed a far heavier vote than could be expected from the size of the registrations. City Editor Harry G. Hoffman set two reporters, Charles R. Armentrout and James A. Hill, to work looking for the buried bodies...