Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where he had won 15,516 votes to Mr. Pinchot's 42,075. He charged that some 60,000 ballots there should be wiped out of the count because the Court of Common Pleas, to prevent fraud, had without legal authority, had the ballots perforated with special numbers. If the Luzerne county vote could be eliminated, Mr. Brown would become the party's nominee for Governor by some 6,000 votes...
Sentenced. Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, brother of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; to three years in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary; for income tax fraud. Also to one year in the Cook County Jail and a $10,000 fine; for misdemeanors...
...Camaguey, Cuba, El Camagueyano, leading newspaper, printed an invective against the national lottery as being illicit gambling and a public fraud. Three days later its editorial staff, who like most Cubans habitually buy lottery tickets, collectively won the biggest prize, took...
Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim. . . . I'll serve my sentence with a clear conscience. . . . I'll read a whole bagful of good literature I brought over with...
...works, most of which had been executed before the age of puberty. Excited dilettantes were lauding even the most execrable of the daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim and the Galeries Zak to be invaded by gendarmes who removed the offensive juvenilia...