Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts of the case disclosed the working methods of the group who had been making a fortune out of what they termed "the medico-dental racket." They sold forged licenses and diplomas for fraud "doctors" to hang on their office walls at an average price of $2,000. They also supplied college credit credentials to "students...
...Interior Department had no power to give away Barnett's wealth; 2) the U. S. could sue to annul Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe; 3) suits to recover Barnett's wealth were justified; 4) nobody had been guilty of criminal conspiracy or fraud...
...That usually accurate and sometimes acid correspondent, Frank R. Kent, has written of Indiana's Watson: "By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any state has sent to Washington in years-a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker." But Senators pay small attention to the strictures of the press and no one can fail to recognize the high esteem which Mr. Watson enjoys in Indiana, which kept him first for twelve years in the House and then elected him to terms aggregating 16 years...
District Attorney Stimson destroyed the sugar fraud ring, sent Charles W. Morse to the Atlanta penitentiary, extracted a $30,000 fine out of James Gordon Bennett for running immoral "Personal" advertisements in the old Herald. (Simultaneously the outgoing Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg, was engaged in smashing the old Standard...
...Alas! His enemies succeeded. But now the fraud is apparent to the whole world. Easter is coming. But only in deepest sadness can we think of our German people, who are externally enslaved and indebted and internally at the same time enslaved and lifeless and?this is the sad dest part?want to be slaves...