Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Board cleared dead Andrew Mellon completely by finding "no doubt" that "the record before us does not sustain the charge of fraud," found the trust that received his pictures was a "valid organization." Dealing with the other disputed transactions one by one, the Board ruled for Mr. Mellon in six of them, against him on three. It found that the sale to Bethlehem Steel Corp. of the McClintic-Marshall Construction Corp., of which he was one of four stockholders, was not a reorganization as he claimed and that his estimated $6,549,000 profits from the deal...
...Government . . . offered the best investment on earth, the promise to pay in gold coin. It continued to do this for ten years. Then the President and Congress denied the right to gold coin. No honest individual should be permitted to do this thing. . . . This opinion sanctions an act of fraud...
...wings and attempted to fly; he also invented a cradle which rocked itself. To escape schooling and go a sketching, Tom himself proved resourceful. Once he successfully forged his father's signature to a note which asked the schoolmaster to "Give Tom a holiday." When his father discovered the fraud, he shook his head and prophesied: "Tom will one day be hanged." But when he saw how he had spent the stolen time, he changed his mind: "Tom will be a genius...
...aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia's infatuation blinds her to the worth of her suitor (Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion...
Died. Judge Francis Joseph Heney, 78. famed prosecutor of Oregon land fraud trials and San Francisco graft prosecutions 30-odd years ago; after a long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. As a young man in Arizona, Heney undertook the case of a divorcing wife whose husband, hulking Dr. Christopher Handy, had threatened to shoot any lawyer who helped her; when they met. Heney drew faster than Handy, killed him. John, son of Christopher Handy, was last week a pallbearer to Judge Heney...