Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With an eight-year jail term for jury-tampering hanging over him (plus a five-year term for a mail fraud and conspiracy conviction), Jimmy Hoffa has recently been as nervous as a truck driver at a tea party. In an effort to avoid the clink, he is using the charges of prostitution and prejudice in asking that a new trial be granted in the jury-tampering conviction-the third such request since Hoffa was convicted*-and that the judge disqualify himself from further involvement in the case...
...baseball player to thumb an umpire from the ballpark. The effects of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 are changing some of that. Among other things, the law required that unions overhaul their constitutions so as to give rank-and-file members more protection against fraud and coercion in voting on their leadership. Thanks in part to more democratic procedures, six major national union heads have been voted out within the last year. Most notable were the International Union of Electrical Workers' James B. Carey, 54, whose nasty disposition finally caught up with him, and the Steelworkers' David...
...Slezak place in Larchmont, N.Y., until the men who arranged to buy the Pollock and the Kline discovered that the paintings would have made better snowshoes. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Connecticut Art Dealer Richard A. Rainsford and a Chicago accomplice on 26 charges of fraud for inventing elaborate pedigrees for the forged paintings, then sneaking them in to be sold with some of Walter Slezak's gear left after the actor moved to California...
...home and getting quick attention for those who become ill. Best known for its virtually loss-proof checks-which have become one of the world's most trusted and convertible currencies-American Express employs 200 sleuths who roam the world policing it against counterfeiting and other types of fraud...
...Negro−literate or illiterate−who fails to vote in future elections will have only his own ignorance or indifference to blame. Unless democracy is a fraud, the new Voting Rights Act, which Mississippi Publisher Hodding Carter says is "secondary only to the Emancipation Proclamation and the surrender at Appomattox," gives Negroes the power to force change as they never could before. And even before the enactment of this ultimate guarantee of what has long been the Negro's constitutional due, other new laws have detailed his rights when he says "I want a room" at any motel...