Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception...
...Bock has made progress in this direction. It is therefore not a laughable joke which threatens to tear down such work. Particularly in the light of the announcement today that Harvard doctors are wholeheartedly backing a movement to make medical aid more available to the general public, this degenerate fraud glistens in direct and unpleasant antithesis...
...that fine old vituperator, David Lloyd George. Once more, the fiery Welshman wagged his forefinger in the faces of members of the Cabinet, calling them "Yellows!" "The London Committee on Spanish Non-Intervention" (see p. 21), shouted Orator Lloyd George, shaking his hoary, tousled head, "is the basest fraud ever perpetrated by great nations on a weak people...
Before Mother Cabrini may be beatified, with the title "Blessed," two or more new miracles must be performed through her intercession. Since the Church in its investigations must winnow authentic "wonders" out of hundreds of minor cases of coincidence, hysteria, or self-hypnosis, and even well-meaning fraud, the reputation of the candidate must become widespread so that thousands of faithful may actively pray for miracles to happen. Last week an organization called the Cabrini Cavaliers, formed last year, made ready to seek 100,000 petitioners for Mother Cabrini's early canonization...
...feet less than an hour when sniping began. George of Georgia wanted to know what was in it for the farmers. Bob Wagner, instead of appealing to rural magnanimity, claimed that his bill benefited everybody. This palpable dodge angered the Southerner into damning the bill as "a fraud because it cannot be administered in rural areas." Snapped Senator Wagner: "I'll compare my character with that of the Senator from Georgia...