Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July, while St. Louisans were perspiring through one of their hottest recorded summers, the resourceful Post-Dispatch startled them out of their discomfort by beginning a series of sensational registration fraud exposures. Day by day the newspaper printed pictures of many a vacant lot, unoccupied building, bawdy house, saloon and cheap hotel listed on the Election Board's "revised and corrected" election rolls as domiciles of phantom voters. Soon private citizens, civic organizations, hungry Republicans turned out of office four years ago in the New Deal landslide, set up a loud clamor, began...
...Kristiansand this week exiled Leon Trotsky not only accused Joseph Stalin once more of fraud, fakery and framing innocents but challenged the Soviet Government to invite to Russia an international working class investigating commission, predicted, "All the charges would then break down...
...Baby Bonds" had better find quick buyers-or else. "We must conquer egotism and fear!" cried Vincent Auriol with something of Franklin Roosevelt's lilt. "Already I have in my hand a list of citizens who have evaded their duty by not reporting funds abroad. We must conquer fraud and fear...
...restricted field of domestic farm staples, however, the Commodity Act hews closer to the general line of securities regulation. Trading sins include manipulation, wash sales, dealing in options, bucketshop operations and routine fraud. Customers have to put up actual margins, something of an innovation for big speculators whose credit is good. One customer's funds may not be used to support another customer's accounts. Floor brokers and commission merchants with a futures business have to register with the Commission. Among the Commission's wide discretionary powers are the right to delay or advance contract settlements...
...caught, commercial racketeers can usually be convicted for mail or bankruptcy fraud, both Federal offenses. But in retail trade a creditor has no recourse against a dead beat except to sue. It is no crime to charge a mink coat, then fail...