Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was this name which she could not remember? The public soon found it out. Her name was Fraud, Charlatanism, Trickery, Guile, Deceit. She, one Alma Sioux Scarberry, employee of the New York Daily Mirror (Hearst), had been "planted" to play her role as a publicity stunt. The Daily Mirror was about to publish a serial novel by Elinor Glyn relating the adventures of the vanished British woman, Miss Levy. Hence the carefully arranged passport pictures, the initials, the English money, in the fraud's vanity-case. Hence the dastardly clever reference to Elinor Glyn. Next day the Mirror publicly...
...arbitrator [Mr. Coolidge] has said that the award makes ample provision for consideration by the Plebiscitary Commission of all questions involving the qualifications of voters and the prevention of fraud with a view to insuring every qualified elector the right to vote, and that the powers of the Plebiscitary Commission as provided in the award are ample guarantee to every qualified voter of full assurance that his vote may be freely cast and will be fairly counted...
...sits Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, self-proclaimed but discredited "discoverer" of the North Pole (1908). Last week Dr. Cook was reported "in such a bad mental and physical state" that he might never finish his term (begun early this year) of from 1 to 14 years for oil-stock fraud...
Judge McCormick had found the contrary, and had ruled that on this count as well as on the count of fraud and conspiracy, the Doheny leases were void...
...repeatedly stated by the courts, fraud cannot be presumed, but must be proved...