Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered it to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co.'s leases and to demand an accounting of the oil which had been taken from Teapot Dome.+ The company was enjoined from trespassing further on Government property. Judge Kenyon's decision cut straight to the point of the fraud: "There is no corruption in this case as to any officers of the Government except Albert B. Fall. It has been the theory of the Government that onetime Secretary Fall received from Harry F. Sinclair, organizer and owner of the Mammoth Co., a pecuniary consideration which influenced him to grant...
...Pinkham and her Compound is presented by TIME for Sept. 20 [p. 20]. I fail to gather the connection to Education and as to the Vegetable, I refer you to the series of articles by Samuel Hopkins Adams in Collier's under the title of "The Great American Fraud." Also to the booklet entitled "Female Weakness Cures" as published by The American Medical Assn...
...Leavenworth Prison, Kan., Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, mendacious near-discoverer (1908) of the North Pole, busies himself with needlework while serving a term for oil-stock fraud...
...their governor, Len Small. Last fortnight they also had a special grand jury sitting to expose wholesale ballot-stealing, box-stuffing, gun play, voting the names of dead men, kidnaping, false returns and intimidation by hirelings of the Republican machine in grimy precincts of tough Chicago. This jury found fraud enough to indict 44 judges, clerks and election officials...
...leading tenors" of the "Chicago Civic Opera Company." Simultaneously with the financial report, President Insull announced that the genuine Company had never been in those particular localities; that former ballerinos and chorus-men were blossoming forth as coloraturas, "leading men"; . . . that precautions had been taken against repetition of the fraud...