Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Communist Gerhart Eisler beat out a U.S. jail sentence in 1949 for contempt of Congress and passport fraud by stowing away on the Polish liner Batory, he was hailed by East German comrades as a "victim" of American "repression." They installed him as a professor in Leipzig University, then made him propaganda boss of the Soviet zone...
...fortnight ago, when the law finally caught up with Rimrock Annie in Los Angeles, she was busily preparing suits against two motorists. Extradited to Colorado, she pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and admitted her chicanery...
...Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud and duress" in depriving him of a share in its profits...
...century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing...
...Southern District of New York, Irving H. Saypol, recently concluded successful prosecution of two accused Communist agents. In 1945 he conducted investigations of black market practices in the textile industry, and in 1947 he secured a verdict of guilty in the prosecution of Serge Rubinstein for Selective Service fraud...