Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Department of Justice. Attorney General Daugherty reported increased prosecutions for War frauds, and for violations of the Prohibition, white slave, tax, public land and postal banking laws. Although 46,000 Prohibition cases were disposed of, there are still 27,000 cases pending. About $4,500,000 has been recovered from the War fraud cases...
Developments in the medical fraud exposé that has been convulsing Missouri and Connecticut: ¶ George M. Sutcliffe, a former news photographer who bought a high school certificate and an M. D. degree at the St. Lords College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a license to practice in Connecticut from the Eclectic Medical Examining Board of that state, was being sought for arrest for manslaughter. He had previously confessed his story to Governor Templeton and other Connecticut officials. Sutcliffe bought a practice on installments in Unionville, Conn. He was responsible for the death by etherization of Albert C. Hoody, mechanic...
...held would be, in Peruvian eyes, to "transform the Treaty [Treaty of Ancon] providing for temporary administration into a unilateral annexation; it would in time of peace constitute a conquest without precedent; it would be a shameful and dishonest conquest because it would have been done by deception and fraud." The history of the Tacna-Arica dispute starts from the peace settlement of the Chile-Peruvian...
...course, be a legally constituted referendum, and for that reason we hope to hold it on a Sunday. It will be necessary for election officials to donate their services free of charge. . . . We certainly would welcome the cooperation of the Legion so that there be no cry of fraud when the bonus is voted down by the ample margin which our investigations among ex-service men the country over show us must be the inevitable result...
...Russia, took the Empress on a long trip through the country, showing her model villages and happy, singing populations. While the Empress was resting at chateaux along the road. Prince Potemkin had the villages moved so she was surrounded with a vision of prosperity. When the Tsarina discovered the fraud, years later, she jailed Prince Potemkin, afterwards executing...