Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of fraud, chicane and every...
More spectacular, though less significant, than the routine of ledger experience is NACM's fraud prevention bureau, which is entirely staffed with onetime G-men. Director Charles Joseph Scully headed the Department of Justice's bomb squad in New York for years, helped bring about the deportation of Anarchist Emma Goldman. Director Scully is very proud of his rogue's gallery of leading U. S. commercial racketeers. This type of crime is lucrative, involves no physical danger, is seldom punished with jail sentences of more than three years. Typical commercial racketeers are the Brothers Minos and Pericles...
...could not answer about the cost of administering the Plan and the basis for estimating the probable yield from a universal transactions tax, Dr. Townsend finally turned on his questioners, expressed his opinion of all such petty quibblings in a sharp bleat: "Oh, why all this nonsense?" Townsendgrams & Fraud. Third morning's questioning involved another Townsend appeal for funds. In January 1935 four men went to Washington to lobby the Townsend Plan through Congress. To pay their expenses Townsendites were asked to contribute to a special Congressional Action Fund, supplied $23,400. Four months later the four lobbyists quit...
...Royalist Jones's revenge was exceedingly short. Day after the Supreme Court decision a Federal grand jury in Manhattan started to hear a special Department of Justice agent present straight mail-fraud charges against the onetime Kansas soda-jerker. Last week J. Edward Jones was indicted on 15 counts, not for violation of the Securities Act but for using the mails to sell $800,000 worth of oil royalty certificates with false promises and fraudulent pretenses...
...public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...