Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the defendants declared their need of more time to prepare a defense, Judge Nelson Brown 1, '03 of the Superior Court yesterday postponed the hearing in the case of the suit by the President and Fellows of the University and the University Band charging fraud in the manufacture and distribution of phonograph records on the part of the American Recount manufacturing Coming, of Framingham, and the University Book Store of Cambridge. The hearing will be held on Friday...
...Senate passed a resolution, without a dissenting vote, stating that since the leases to Sinclair and Doheny "were execuled under circumstances indicating fraud and corruption," were executed "without authority," and were "in defiance of the settled policy of the Government," they were "against the public interest" and that therefore the President was authorized to order suits to be brought: 1) for cancellation of the leases; 2) for prosecution, civil and criminal, of such other actions and proceedings "as may be warranted." The President by the terms of the resolution would be further authorized to appoint special counsel for the prosecution...
...That since the resolution had declared that "the leases were executed under circumstances indicating fraud and corruption," his testimony might tend to incriminate...
...there any fraud or bribery in the making of the leases? The evidence indicates as regards Naval Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills, Calif.), Mr. Doheny lent Mr. Fall $100,000 about one year before the final contract with the Doheny interests was drawn (TIME, Feb. 4). As regards Naval Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), Mr. Sinclair lent Mr. Fall $25,000 and employed him some two years after the Reserve was leased to Mr. Sinclair, and three or four months after Mr. Fall had left the Cabinet...
...this is not sufficient grounds for indignation, or for accusations of fraud or trickery. The important point is that everyone who votes Yes or No on the plan must know that he really is voting Yes or No on the League of Nations. And by design or accident, the summary which appears on the ballots gives the impression that the League has practically nothing to do with the Bok Prize Plan by displaying the Court of International Justice in altogether undue prominence, and relegating the League to the second paragraph, with misleading phraseology and even without capital letters...