Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude shown by these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
...Testify or get out," was the edict which the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Market gave to their members last week. Recent exposures of fraud on the part of stockbrokers (notably the case of E. M. Fuller & Co. of the Consolidated Stock Exchange) led to the attempt to " clean up " the exchanges. The Consolidated Stock Exchange is the one most vitally concerned, but the others are taking the cleaning up on their own shoulders...
...Stock Exchange had done over a century before. This indoor meeting place enabled the New York Curb Association for the first time in its history to punish its members for unethical practices by expelling them. The recent and laudable attempt of the Curb Market to put down fraud or dishonesty among its members has borne highly successful results. Both the "Big Board" and the Curb Market are indispensable parts of the national financial machinery. There is, however, a third trading center in New York-the Consolidated Stock Exchange. This organization developed in comparatively recent years by the merging of several...
...fellow Negroes soon began to scent fraud, and a meeting of the Friends of Negro Freedom (August 6,1922) declared his schemes impracticable, and that he was secretly in sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan...
...line testified that Garvey had appropriated for himself money collected for the Association and for the Black Star Line. Unless Marcus Garvey can bring evidence to prove the propriety of his financial operations, the case will end with the Provisional President of Africa behind the bars for common fraud...