Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tales of scandal and fraud hovering over his Administration, said the President, were just not true. He would answer that point-blank and categorically. His house was always in order; it was a clean house. His people were honorable men, and he would not have them if they were...
...James M. Curley last week confirmed an open secret: he will be a candidate for re-election next November. It is simply a matter of civic duty, said the 76-year-old Jim Curley, who kept right on bossing the city when he was sent to prison for mail fraud in 1947. "I have been mayor in four crises and have overcome what appeared insuperable obstacles and know that I can do it again...
...year Times-Herald job to become Senator Butler's $10,800 assistant, said McCarthy's office had provided a lot of the story material, and Times-Herald files most of the pictures. The composite, he said stoutly, was "not a fake . . . not a fraud." It was, he added with a straight face, just a happy answer to a problem of "space limitation." Assistant Managing Editor Garvin E. Tankersley, who had ordered the composite made, acknowledged that he was trying to "show that Mr. Tydings did treat Mr. Browder with kid gloves." Asked Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney...
...Rimrock Annie, had had a long and profitable history of similar claims. Her success was due to the fact that she could apparently concoct at will such convincing symptoms as bleeding at the ear. In Colorado, Annie admitted her talent for artistic malingering, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week she was sentenced to the state penitentiary for one to three years...
...inspection system might prevent the secret production of atomic weapons, but bombs [could be] concealed before the inspection . . . The U.S. Government could not perpetrate such a fraud, but the Politburo most certainly could...