Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism schools the faculty consists largely of unsuccessful newspapermen ... At the worst [the schools] are a fraud, providing snap courses for lazy students; at the best they are a delusion, giving graduates a mistaken notion that they have received valuable training...
...accept the offer, and accused those who held out for a larger sum of "trying to cause Henry Kaiser's financial eclipse." Said Judge Picard: "Kaiser was the victim of his own paternalism in trying to make the K-F company a success," and was innocent of any "fraud, deceit, collusion or any wrongful...
...time when American blood is again being shed to preserve our dream of freedom, we are constrained fearlessly and frankly to call the charges . . . what they truly are: a fraud and a hoax perpetrated on the Senate of the United States and the American people. They represent perhaps the most nefarious campaign of half-truths and untruth in the history of this republic...
...Pasadena, the FBI arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...
Died. Archbishop Ismael Perdomo, 78, political-minded Roman Catholic Primate of Colombia; in Bogotá. A conservative on most issues in his nation's fiercely partisan politics, Archbishop Perdomo sternly condemned the political use of violence and fraud, gained the enmity of Conservative Strong Man (now President-elect) Laureano...