Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate on March 4, 1927; but he has not yet been allowed to ake his seat, because of charges pending against him. These charges, as summed up last week in the report of Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee, include 'irregularities and fraud" in Mr. Vare's election. Until the Senate votes to seat or to oust Mr. Vare, he remains both a Senator-elect and a Senator-suspect. After that, be will be either a Senator or a Senator-reject (as is Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois...
...Gentlemen, this is a fraud. Any time you give me information in order to pass or defeat legislation and that information is incorrect, that is fraud...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...
...famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth of the charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced English lord in the pay of the court, a neurotic, lustful woman, a self-righteous bully of a pedagogue-suffered tortures of childish bafflement...
...entrusted some $500,000 and the task of Democratizing the discontented agricultural vote of the Midwest and Northwest, and whose failure to do so was mercifully merged with the Brown Derby's national failure, insisted to the end that the farm vote was held for Hoover by "misrepresentations," "fraud...