Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later U. S. prestige recovered a bit when the State Department announced that "the fraud consisted in underweighing bales of merchandise consigned to the importers," ordered Minister Norman Armour to waive Collector Johnson's immunity as a treaty official, turn him over to the Haitian courts for trial...
...Trade Commission registration can be revoked for fraud, insolvency, dishonest advertising or unsound business principles...
...merely by writing a brief letter to his wife, and that no money had passed, was the Government's contention last week. If Mr. Mitchell had erred in calculating his return, the civil statute of limitations would have run out after two years. But for the prosecution of fraud the limitation is six years. The Government has ample time to try Charles Edwin Mitchell...
...turn over collateral put up by his Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. for a loan from a big stockholder. The collateral: bonds, promissory notes, "130 pieces of paper valued at ? each" -presumably shares in receivershipped Mo-Kan. Indicted early last year on a $35,000,000 Federal mail fraud charge. Promoter Parish in 1931 bought the old Presidential steam yacht Mayflower...
...power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst of devious intriguing with a half-hostile, half amorous Europe, while cursing her courtiers and badgering her maids-in-waiting, could turn her hand to lyrics of evanescent charm...