Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very close affair, but about how to beat the competition. The dilemma was resolved by a resourceful editor who printed up two sets of papers in advance and sent them out on the trucks to hold until given the word. The first headline proclaimed: HEARST WINS. The other read FRAUD...
...pushers who have been operating by mail and telephone to take U.S. suckers for an estimated $50 million a year in phony gold and oil stocks neared the end of their rope last week. The Canadian Senate ratified a change in its extradition treaty with the U.S., making such fraud an extraditable offense. No longer protected by the border, blue-sky stock peddlers can now be arrested in either country and tried where the buyer was actually bilked...
Even worse, the Bureau of Internal Revenue asked the doc for back taxes. The T-men calculated that he owed them $22,000. At week's end, the doc was still protesting that he had committed no fraud. "I think the Government is partly to blame . . ." he cried. "Why did they let me go on like this for 30 years, anyway...
...Hysteria" in men differs from women's hysteria in one essential way: the men always stand to gain something, such as escape from prosecution or release from military service. They do not plan their illness deliberately for this purpose (if they did, it would be fraud or malingering), but the element of advantage is always present. None of the women patients stood to gain anything nearly so tangible from their hysteria, so far as the doctors could...
...back at the barricades in another sector: he turned his attention to the "hypocritical" and "frantic" critics of corruption and disloyalty in government. In a nationally broadcast speech to the Civil Service League, he accused his critics of "a ruthless, cynical attempt to put over a gigantic hoax and fraud on the American people" to distract attention from the real issues of the day. Said Truman: "Political gangsters are attempting to pervert the [loyalty] program into an instrument of intimidation and blackmail, to coerce or destroy any who dare to oppose them . . . They have not hesitated to lie, under cover...