Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninformed layman, has been dismissed by science. The statement is untrue, unwarranted and unworthy of TIME. The book is frankly controversial in its nature, frankly attacks the premises of classical anthropology, and neither seeks nor expects wholesale acceptance. But to imply that it lacks scientific backing is a fraud. May I quote...
Lear's article describes the activities of several other agencies as well and discloses exaggerated campaign claims and a niggardly payment policy on the part of the March of Dimes in addition to outright fraud on the part of the Kenny Foundation...
...into the telegraph office by an impostor. Said Eleanor: "While the sentiments might not be far away from what I think, I would never send a telegram of this sort to the Secretary of State." Just as curious as the episode itself was the editorial applause given to the fraud by the New York Times. Wrote the Times: "The Italians have a saying, 'Se non e vero, e ben trovato,' which roughly translated means: 'Even if it wasn't true, it was a good idea...
What the hanged men had in common was that they had all supported deposed President Syngman Rhee. Otherwise, their alleged crimes hardly seemed to merit the death penalty: former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was accused of fraud; Rhee's ex-bodyguard Kwak Yung Joo and Gangster Lim Wha Soo, of corruption; Socialist Choi Back Keum, of "antistate activities," and Publisher Cho Yong Soo was charged with "sympathizing" with the views of Communist North Korea...
...last week disappeared from all his old haunts-one of the things the investigators reportedly uncovered was McCormick's friendship with Alexander Guterma, former president of the Detroit auto parts firm of F. L. Jacobs & Co., who was sent to federal penitentiary two years ago for stock fraud. The friendship was close enough, so the story went, that when McCormick ran up a sizable gambling debt during a 1956 trip to Havana, he let Guterma pick...