Word: fraude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fraud and Deceit...
...Thompson, onetime Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13) and currently president of Fidelity Investment Association. Old Financier Thompson may soon have more time for his mushrooms, for last week SEC asked a Federal judge in Detroit for injunctions whose effect might put Fidelity out of existence "as a fraud and deceit...
...Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate's Teapot Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published...
...avoider. Stockholders sued him. SEC got after him, turned its findings over to a U. S. Attorney. Last week in New York a Federal grand jury indicted Wallace Groves, Brother George Groves and Cronies De Ronde and Warriner and five corporations* on 14 counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy. Principal transaction named in the indictment was a neat little deal whereby Wallace Groves was said to have made $300,000 out of General Investment Corp. in 1936. A group headed by ex-President George Devendorf of General Investment wanted to sell the corporation 20,000 shares...
Odets defines the general fraud. It is the American dream, the Cinderella formula, the success story (presumably including his own). It is life as expressed in popular songs; it is Boy Meets Girl; it is Every Boy Can End Up in the White House. Hollywood is its chief dispenser. American men are its chief victims. As soon, says Odets, as an American man finds his dream girl has a blemish that wasn't in the song about her, he is through with...