Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail in the 1930s had Wall Street come under such withering scrutiny. It was bad enough that the SEC was probing the American Stock Exchange after a series of scandals (TIME, May 5 et seq.), even more disturbing that SEC investigators were working overtime on more cases of market fraud and manipulation than ever before. But last week SEC Chairman William L. Gary suggested that the whole barrel of apples had better be tumbled out and examined. Testifying before a House subcommittee, Gary urged a full-dress investigation of general trading and market practices, strongly endorsed a proposal by Illinois...
...Dark and the Light, by Elio Vittorini. Two short novels, one about a young girl who preserves her innocence even as she turns prostitute and an old fraud who preserves her vitality even as she approaches death, add up to a fine study in contrasts...
Last was Diane, a nice average-looking girl who played a nice, average plano. She had the distinction of having a manager, who was solicitous enough to hint fraud after the judging...
...Russian-born, Harvard-educated Angoff has emerged as Mencken's chief literary assassin. Having fanged his ex-idol non-fictionally in H. L. Mencken: A Portrait from Memory, Angoff releases some fictional venom in The Bitter Spring. Mencken is portrayed as a loud-mouthed vulgarian and an intellectual fraud with but a single saving grace, his love of music...
Possible domestic consequences strike me as even more serious. The "New Frontler" stands exposed as a sham and a fraud, and what is worse, ineffectual against "atheistic Communism." Now the way is wide open to the hardware crowd. They can argue that the gamble falled not because of popular support for Castro, but because we falled to send in the Marines (with the supporting argument that Castro suppressed a domestic uprising by terror. Today's New York Times already hints at this argument. There may have been a touch of the hard hand. But this looks trivial to me. Castro...