Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life? If only Church and Government could agree, Mexico would be spared what looks like her ugliest crisis since Dwight W. Morrow mediated between Catholicism and the Revolution (TIME, July 8, 1929). In politics and economics the Government sees everything through pinko-Socialist glasses. It rejects religion as a fraud, holding that God does not exist. As to sex, the Government favors teaching even little boys and girls all about themselves. Last week pious parents throughout Mexico were inciting their offspring to play hooky from schools in which such things are taught...
Since Democratic Nominee Sinclair's main strength lies in and around Los Angeles, and since an unprecedented number of drifters have been attracted to Southern California by his "End Poverty In California." the Los Angeles County Republican Assembly sniffed fraud, began an investigation of registrations. First result was a suit filed by the State's Attorney General to remove 24,136 names from the rolls. According to the Republicans, hopeful vagrants had been giving vacant lots and stores for residences, had assumed the names of dead men in order to ballot for their EPICandidate...
...under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders who had registered to vote and snapped with British disdain: "A most obvious and patent fraud...
...Government's case. Because he has no star witness Attorney Green's case will be built entirely from Insull records. And because a volume of records may yield but a line of guilt, Attorney Green will be forced to recite the Life of Insull to get at the fraud of Corporation Securities. To help him are 2,500 exhibits, 200 witnesses to identify the exhibits, a freshly made 22-ft. bookcase in the courtroom to hold the exhibits. At the end of last week he was still busy having his mute witnesses identified by a voluble line of clerks...
...assurance that a high-priced engagement automatically went with a diploma. The new committee proceeded to chronicle such cases, to warn the public that no authorized "radio college" exists, that the "radio teacher" who claims connections with important radio bookers is as likely as not to be a complete fraud...