Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happening to be named Edward Windsor and having nice eyes set in haggard sockets, a nonchalant young Briton some weeks ago put up at a flattered Paris hotel, showed his passport and began running up right royal bills. Presently sued for "fraud" by the proprietors, the bright Briton was cleared of this aspersion on the name of Windsor last week when the strict French court ruled there had been no fraud "because Mr. Windsor never told or gave the hotel management to understand he was the former King...
Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
...John Bruce Heath. His respectable and even eminent staff* understood John Bruce Heath was a ; big capitalist from Canada. Actually this compelling little personage with a soft voice and wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville. He had been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted by the police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some $100,000 to start his financial sheet. Like Boston's Charles Ponzi, he promised huge returns on funds entrusted to him for reinvestment, made enough "dividend" payments from principal to reassure his victims...
...bright young Yalemen had discovered that if they did have the world by the tail, that was a very poor place to catch it. In Federal District Court in Manhattan Wallace Graydon Garland, class of 1925, and Arnold Caverly Mason, class of 1928, were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud on 43 counts in a flamboyant security swindle...
...quick money has the stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share. And this time the Securities & Exchange Commission undertook...