Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more humiliating for the freshman. The poor victim in question is called upon the telephone and asked whether or not he is a freshman. On the affirmative answer he is told to get down to the freshman meeting quick in such and such a hall. The freshman, not suspecting fraud and deceit, then goes out into the hall, where he is jumped on by a squad of sophomores who shave a strip down the top of his hair with a pair of clippers. When so marked it takes more than a hat to conceal the class of the victim...
...filling the air around him. High Commissioner Cornut-Gentile wrote to the district attorney at Toulouse: "With the use of this magnetized love perfume we are marking a return to sorcery. This dangerous current must be stopped." The Toulouse district attorney hauled Raynaud to court and charged him with fraud. Raynaud, who is a bachelor himself, stoutly argued that his was "an agreeable perfume which fixes the sentiments of one person toward another ... [It has] no other object than to assist the love illusion...
President McCarthy puts it this way: "We think that all this bunk by Sigmund Fraud (sic) is just that. In this school we teach facts, the kind of facts you can't dispute, and techniques which have worked from today clear back to the year...
...most city officials agree that Cambridge today is much better off than it was in the days of the trucking and snowplow rackets and the part-time labor fraud. Before reform, some Cambridge mayors controlled the city's trucks and could assure themselves reelection by hiring extra part-time labor. For instance, one mayor was known to call up a majority of the fifteen City Councilors the night before a Council meeting almost all of whom had an interest in a trucking contract with the city for snow removal or refuse collection. Then he would warn them that unless they...
Finally, when the Democratic majority brought out a report denouncing his charges as "a fraud and a hoax on the American people," Joe was ready. "Whitewash," he cried...