Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously from this decision. Said Justice Brandeis: "They [the union members] were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract. They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats." Old but Able. Before the Supreme Court last week, a stocky 93-year-old gentleman with neatly trimmed snow-white beard and abundant snow-white hair, looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction...
Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...
...Ford's opening reply, obviously written by his Voltaire-tongued chief counsel, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, said that Mr. Sapiro was "a grafter, faker, fraud and cheat"; that his unprofessional acts and conduct have "rendered him obnoxious to the nostrils of American farmers...
...Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously answered a four-year-old question: Was there fraud in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to Edward L. Doheny? The answer...