Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FINALLY, FATE. Peccadilloes, of course, play a political part. Maryland Democrat Thomas Francis Johnson, 53 has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting $24,918 to influence a mail-fraud case. He blandly tells his audiences: "A man is presumed innocent until he is found guilty. I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have on foreign affairs." But he seems likely to lose to Rogers Morton, 48, a strapping (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.) younger brother ot Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford...
...least one distinguished predecessor. In 1940 the late James M. Curley ran for alderman and won while serving a term in the Charles St. Jail. Curley almost pulled it off a second time in 1949 when he was defeated in the mayoralty race after serving time for mail fraud. This political heritage is not lost on Iannello, who announced with deep emotion after his nomination: "Curley was my second father. I only wish I could fill his shoes, even one shoe...
...because you believe in democracy? Because you think the most qualified candidate should win? Because you cannot endure seeing a man ride to victory on the assumption that democracy is a fraud? Is it not true that you hate Teddy because you cannot bring yourself to hate the real culprits, the voters of Massachusetts...
...confident would make him Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Lester Pearson led off with the longest speech of his parliamentary career (three hours and five minutes) and closed it with the shortest (18 words) no-confidence motion in Parliament's history. He accused the Conservatives of "a major political fraud" in hiding last June's critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted by disclosing ordinarily secret foreign-exchange figures...
...Myra Hess is lampooned for her heroic series of concerts at the British Museum--surely not an inherently funny undertaking; and the skit ends with a singing of Auld Lang Syne which suddenly runs down like a broken record player, suggesting--what? That the whole war effort was a fraud? That the years of the war were unreal? Something definitely unpleasant, in any event...