Word: fraude
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Discovery of fraud or positive identification of famous paintings is made possible through the collection of more than 2000 X-Ray shadowgraphs now housed in the Fogg Art Museum. This year the collection is being expanded with the addition of new shadowgraphs from Europe...
...them see the Masonic Temple revolve on its invisible axis. Scene was the U. S. District Court, Judge Philip L. Sullivan presiding. Cast consisted principally of 41 defendants on trial for using the mails to swindle an estimated $1,350,000 from some 70,000 Midwesterners. The fantastic fraud on view was based on the assumption that Sir Francis Drake had left a huge and as yet undivided fortune. Some 27 billion dollars would be split as soon as costly litigation was concluded. Benefactors were divided into two groups: those who had the name of Drake somewhere in their family...
Because of the intense loyalty and faith the duped give the dupers, the Government has had a hard time running the fraud to earth. Two years ago at Sioux City, Iowa, Oscar Merrill Hartzell was convicted of using the mails to defraud Drakesters, was given ten years in Leavenworth. Hartzell started out as an Iowa farmer as dimwitted as the rest of the Drake Estate "contributors." After he had put up $6,000 of his mother's money, he made a trip to England in 1922 to see how it was being spent. There he promptly switched from...
...Drake Estate, these people not only believed in it, almost as in a holy cause, but they put their own money in it. Take the case of Charlie Jones. He put in from $3,000 to $5,000 which he inherited from his father. Can he be guilty of fraud? Take the case of an engineer in Wenatchee, Wash, and a barber in Texas. The Drake Estate was a matter of social interest in their communities. It was talked of at picnics, church socials, bridge parties. People were convinced it was the way to wealth. . . . They got these people...
Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is hustling young William Maloney. He went to Fordham University and his middle name is Power. Last week William Power Maloney obtained a $4,500,000 mail fraud indictment against three young Yalemen, 49 other individuals and 20 corporations-biggest mail fraud indictment in U. S. history. Smartest of the three Yalemen was Wallace G. Garland, Class of 1925 (Sheffield). Member of a solid Pittsburgh family, he was not a conspicuous undergraduate except as a brilliant student. Even Professor Irving Fisher liked his original notions on business and economics...