Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From its files the Examiner drew many a great news story with which in days gone by it had roused San Franciscans: the mysterious Nob Hill haunted house scare (1888), the City Hall building fraud of 1891; the visit of Strong Man Eugene Sandow in 1894 when the blond Hercules separately moved each & every muscle of his body; the horrid "Belfry Murders"-two young women church workers, one chopped up, one strangled and stowed in a steeple (1895); the kidnapping and torture of aged Sugar Planter James Campbell...
...said Landis, falls into three main divisions: control of the issuance of new securities, control of established securities and control of exchanges to insure fair play by both investor and trustee. Due to false reports, shoddy accounting, and inability to force reports in many cases, the disclosure of security fraud is more difficult than checking evil exchange practices...
...last autumn some 20 Kansas City lawyers paid a call on Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves. They asked for a Federal investigation of Kansas City elections. Judge Reeves, tall, bony, with sagging cheeks, stone grey hair and 14 years on the Federal bench, told them to get evidence of fraud at the election on Nov. 3, promised to investigate fully after election...
...having seduced her. He was arrested for second-degree rape. Said Mrs. Backus, posing for photographs in apparent enjoyment of home life on her husband's $25-a-week salary: "People ought to mind their own business." Three days later Leona's father was jailed, accused of fraud in obtaining the birth certificate on which her marriage license was based...
...penalized" 190,812 francs ($8,896.60) ; she had to pay the costs of the Government's having caught and punished her; and for one month there will remain publicly posted up at the police station of her precinct in Paris a notice proclaiming "THE CONVICTION FOR FRAUD of Mme Drouard-Marquiset...