Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vindictiveness in its interpretation, no concealed punishment to those who must live under it. There are no grudges to satisfy; no venom which needs victims. . . . Only those who see things crookedly will find it harsh. The commission will make war ... on any who sell securities by fraud or misrepresentation...
From North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh, Luke Lea Jr., son of Convict No. 29,409, was paroled after serving eleven weeks of a two-to-six-year sentence for bank fraud...
...jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...
...moon-faced William Langer of North Dakota has the distinction of being the only Republican Governor in any of the 42 states carried by Roosevelt in 1932. Last week Governor Langer attained a second distinction when he became the first man convicted of fraud under a new Federal law. For the past 18 months, Governor Langer has made things hum in North Dakota. He made a big to-do by calling out the militia to enforce his wheat embargo, his mortgage moratorium. When taunted by his enemies for a 5% levy on the wages of all State job holders, Governor...
...Prairie Chairman William Samuel ("Sam") Fitzpatrick "sold out." Last week resentment boiled into a law suit when the onetime secretary of Prairie Oil and six stockholders filed a petition in a Federal court to dissolve Consolidated Oil, appoint a receiver for its $375,000,000 assets. The suit charged fraud, misrepresentation and manipulation in the merger with Prairie Oil, accused "Sam" Fitzpatrick of accepting $449,000 from Mr. Sinclair "without investment or service on his part." During a Senate investigation last November it was revealed that Mr. Fitzpatrick, a small-town Kansas lawyer who used to play in a Sedan...