Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue that they are asked to solve: Your boss has been exaggerating the results of your department. During his vacation, you have to file his reports. If you tell the truth, he's on the spot; if you don't, you become an accomplice in a dangerous fraud. What...
...matter that the fellow is under indictment for conspiracy, fraud, theft and tax evasion. Some of the folks in Ocean City, Md., think he'd make a dandy mayor, being such a famous local innkeeper and all. But, said Bobby Baker, 37, bustling around his ocean-side Carousel Motel, "I'm not a candidate for anything. I've got more problems than I can say grace over." Lyndon Johnson's former protege is awfully civic-minded, though. He thinks the Federal Government, for example, ought to develop nearby Assateague Island into "a major recreation center." Baker...
...Freshmen, Students, and the College, and Edward Everett Cauthorne, 103, the College's oldest alumnus, die in St. Andrews, Canada, and New York City. Perry Miller wins the Pulitzer Prize for history and Arthur M. Schlessinger Jr. the prize for biography. The Securities and Exchange Commission brings stock fraud charges against Thomas S. Lamont, a Fellow of the College...
...sooner were the election returns in than Bosch followers began crying fraud, and Bosch himself announced that his party would challenge the results "at every point where there appears to have been fraud." In Bosch's behalf-but clearly without his blessing -snipers began taking potshots in downtown Santo Domingo, and leftist and Communist troublemakers took to the streets, jeering "A gigantic fraud," throwing rocks, and scattering leaflets that called for a "massive fight in the streets." "Balaguer," glared one young tough, "might be elected, but he will never rule this city...
...stop!' " Judge Thomas agreed. "The court," he said, "did not hear any evidence which would indicate that votes were bought or sold, that boxes were stuffed, or that there was any misconduct on the part of polling officials or voters which could be construed as even approaching fraud." Moreover, he said, such technical and clerical errors as there were resulted mostly from Negro officials' being "inadequately instructed in their duties through no fault of their...