Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first cases springing directly from the Oil Scandal was tried in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stated that the leases of the Teapot Dome lands should be cancelled due to fraud. Not one of the people incriminated in the trial have taken the stand to defend themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea...
...more scathing denunciation of the Honorable Jim from prominent Republicans than you do from any Democrat. By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any State has sent to Washington in years- a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker...
...years ago. His first "game" was the curing of eye diseases by mail. At Des Moines, he built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent Liar." He was not refuted...
...This modern mind is the greates fraud in the world," declared the. Right Reverend Arthur Fogey Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, in the short address which he delivered to 200 guests of the St. Paul's Society in the Phillips Brooks House last night. The British Bishop went on to say that he had known young men intimately for 40 years, and that they were confronted by the same problems and met them in the same way today as they did when he was an undergraduate...
...Government official, engaged in making contracts for the Government, receives pecuniary favors from one with whom such contracts are made, a fraud is committed on the Government, and it matters not that the Government is subjected to no pecuniary loss or that the contract might have been an advantageous one to it. The entire transaction is tainted with favoritism, collusion and corruption, defeating the proper and lawful functions of the Government...