Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State, Fischer studied at the best schools, went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, displayed a keen mind and a deep social conscience. Last week, Fischer stood in the dock of the Pretoria Palace of Justice, charged with 15 counts of Communist activity and conspiring to commit sabotage, fraud and forgery under South Africa's Suppression of Communism...
...stood by its own bill and called for a conference with the House. Local home rule advocates are now split. The Democratic Central Committee has refused to go along with the Home Rule Committee and the League of Women Voters. It insists that the Sisk Bill is a fraud, that it was not offered in good faith, and that anyway the home rule movement should not be in such unseemly haste to back down. Besides, they argue, the Senate and the Administration have not yet backed down and it would be pointless for local home rule forces...
After months of angry debate, the New York legislature last week tossed out the toughest divorce law in the land. An antique drafted by Alexander Hamilton in 1787, it was the only U.S. divorce law that parted spouses solely for adultery, a rule that spawned fraud and collusion on a colossal scale. What finally killed the law, said one legislator, was "a man named John-Pope John." With the reforming spirit of Vatican II blowing strong, New York's Roman Catholic bishops toned down their opposition to change, and the legislators scrambled into action...
...with executives and musicians, but we haven't started with teachers," says Cornell President James Perkins. Even in some small colleges, where teaching is supposed to be the sole goal, says one university president who has visited nearly 400 campuses, "what they call an education is a fraud...
...Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Thomas Lamont '21, Harvard Fellow and director of Texas Gulf Sulphur company, with fraud and deceit in 1964 purchase of 3000 shares of Texas Gulf Sulphur stock...