Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women's emancipation protest and cries of "Fraud!" animated the Cabot Hall dance and bake sale last night...
...other raffle, of entire girls, "was not organized to titillate," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, president of East House, said. The seven winners of the raffle, who paid 25 cents per ticket, were greeted with a smile and a cup cake. "It's fraud!" cried one dejected winner. "I didn't even get a kiss," he said. The cupcakes were selling earlier for ten cents...
Financial Fine Point. Democrat Unruh dismissed the plan as a "fraud" on the ground that all of the surplus?due partly to Reagan-imposed economies, partly to an inflationary increase in revenues?will be on hand at the end of the current fiscal year (June 30). Whether or not that should entitle taxpayers to collect it on this year's tax returns (filing deadline: April 15) may be a fine point of finance, but Unruh was the first to admit that it mattered a great deal politically. "He has no right," he objected, "to keep it in the state treasury...
...successor, Robert Finch. If Finch were to reverse the ruling, he would surely enrage the liberals who have been arguing for the change for years. If he were to enforce it, he would anger critics of the welfare program who believe that the change would only encourage widespread fraud...
...York City detectives, under the auspices of the First National City Bank, conducted a fraud clinic to acquaint merchants with ways of cutting their losses. Similar campaigns have been launched by retail associations from Georgia to Texas. Chicago retailers have urged the courts to take a tougher stand against shoplifters, asking for higher bond, fewer continuances and stiffer fines and sentences. Penalties already run as high as $10,000 and ten years in jail, but teen-age first offenders often get off with merely a reprimand...