Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Mumler, a deluge of spirit photographers, most notably Mssrs. Beattie, Hudson and Bournsell of London, Duguid of Glasgow, Bland of Johannesburg, Wyllie of California, and Buguet of Paris, practiced widely and appear to have been extensively if carelessly investigated by photographic experts who failed to detect them in fraud. It is only fair to note that these early spirit photographers seem to have operated largely by their own lights, without anything resembling scientific control, and that even confirmed believers in psychic phenomena doubted their results, suggesting an ample variety of ways that a middling to clever fraud could have...
Throughout the investigations Serios has been, on the whole, remarkably anxious to convince and notably open about all procedures, suggesting that if he is a fraud, he is one of the more skillful and calculating variety, a suggestion which nothing known about his intelligence, background, manual skills or working condiitons (Serios often seems to attain best results when soused) would support...
...some cases the exchanges have stopped trading in risky stocks temporarily or require 100% margin. Giant Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith recently dusted off an advertisement that reminds investors that Wall Street runs two ways. Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Manuel F. Cohen has his investigators scrutinizing for possible fraud 45 companies whose stock is actively traded; previously the Government had secured indictments against 22 brokers, bankers, lawyers and businessmen for allegedly rigging the stock of two small companies traded on the American Exchange. Alex C. Caldwell, administrator of the Agriculture Department's Commodity Exchange Authority, which supervises commodity trading...
...also a clear repudiation of the loud charges of fraud, for the South Vietnamese know all too well what rigged voting amounts to; in the country's two previous presidential "elections," Ngo Dinh Diem won by 98% and 88% of the ballots cast...
...nationalist, anti-Communist religious sects of the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai, and sizable numbers of Catholics. All told, they represented a potential block of over 2,000,000 votes. The fact that Thieu's winning total was only 1,600,000 votes virtually nullified any claims of fraud, even though Dzu and six other civilian candidates kept their promise and served notice last week that they will ask the watchdog Constituent Assembly to invalidate the elections and order new ones. Thieu's winning margin was so eminently credible that the Assembly is unlikely to take any heed...