Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after another these so-called War fraud cases have been lost by the Government. The important ones include the "Morse War Shipping," "Crowell Cantonment" and "Harness Frauds" cases. In the Phillips case, it happened that John L. Phillips, the leading defendant, was a former Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. In most of the cases, however, victory for the Government would have demonstrated a blot on the record of the former Democratic Administration. The fact that not one Democratic official of any prominence has been successfully prosecuted−although Democrats were in office at a time when the large and hasty...
Republican Rule, 1921. Politics depraved; one Secretary disgraced, another incapable, a third shockingly unfit. Veterans' Bureau filled with fraud and neglect. Oil leases made criminally; censure of those who exposed crime. A vote for Coolidge is a vote for chaos...
...medium's "control" is her dead brother "Chester," who performs a great variety of activities, such as rapping, talking, juggling, whistling, singing, pinching, scratching, kissing, moving heavy objects, making visible clocks strike, playing victrolas, producing psychic photographs. No evidence of fraud was found, and the moral factors were all in favor of the medium, who has put every convenience at the disposal of the investigators. But elaborate objective tests are to be made by the scientists to preclude fraud or error...
...Election Fraud. "It has always been the habit of parties which have been beaten in elections to blame it on the violence or fraud of their adversaries. That the opposition should attempt the same trick now, therefore, neither surprises nor disturbs...
...still greedily reaching out for new wealth, searching the whole world for fresh sources and striving by fraud and violence to monopolize them. By this action it is again reviving the terrible spectre...