Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Releases. Bitterest spleen was reserved for the Administration's principal pressagent in its fight against power companies-the Federal Trade Commission. Declaring that he was still searching for stronger words, the Institute's Managing Director Bernard Francis Weadock accused the Commission of "fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, dishonesty, downright maliciousness, breach of trust" in its eight-year power probe (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.). Director Weadock is supposed to be the only person who has ploughed through every page of the 73 volumes of the Commission's findings. The five Commissioners he exonerates on the ground that they...
...grim old Bailey Court month ago Manchester was sentenced to nine months in jail for the "fraud" of pawning jewels tied up beyond his reach in the family estate by his late shrewd mother. Her wisdom has permitted Manchester time & again to spend all he can get his hands on and more, go bankrupt, and then start afresh on the next instalment handed him by trustees who have absolute discretion...
...Bailey conviction and jail sentence looked ironclad to laymen, for His Grace had signed assurances to the pawnbrokers that he possessed the jewels pawned, which he did not possess. Was that not fraud? Last week when Manchester's case reached the Court of Criminal Appeal, it was loftily held by Their Lordships that there had been no "intent to defraud" and therefore no fraud by Manchester because His Grace had been advised by lawyers that he did possess the jewels. In quashing the jail sentence, England's Lord Chief Justice said that the Duke of Manchester "seemed...
...with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions of a new esthetic principle called spectrum. While the real identity of the author was carefully concealed critics and poets gravely debated the merits of this bogus verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly humorous than his verse play, Cake, less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems...
...wireless at a cost claimed to be $200,000. They applauded lustily when Judge Rutherford referred to the Roman Catholic Church as a "foreign foe" whose head had ordered that Jehovah's Witnesses be crushed; when he declared that "Jehovah has expressly declared the League of Nations a fraud and a snare and it shall be destroyed"; when he reminded them that though Satan's time on earth is up, he "refuses to get out" and so must also be destroyed, under the leadership of Jesus Christ. Burden of Judge Rutherford's rambling remarks, delivered...