Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year when they, too, went broke, but not before Marcus Garvey had been jailed again for seditious libel in The Blackman. When he grew tired of the small arena of Jamaica politics and planned to go back to the U. S., Harlem Negroes hastily dug up more evidence of fraud and gave it to the police. From Jamaica he tried to run a lottery among U. S. Negroes but the U. S. banned the tickets from the mails. Marcus Garvey knew he was a leader but followers were getting harder and harder to find. Some one pointed out the British...
Aboard S. S. Exilonia At Sea, May 2 --Samuel Insull will be "flat broke" when he arrives in New York next week to face fraud charges growing out of the collapse of his utilities empire...
...prospective return of the airmail to its old status, he was far from conceding that the Administration had erred. In Newark, whither he went to lay the cornerstone of a new $6,000,000 post office, he repeated his charge that canceled contracts had been "conceived and executed by fraud and collusion," and loudly decried "hostile propaganda" and "political sniping...
Judge Lescouvé testified that he had drawn up two reports on Sacha Stavisky's strange success in dodging trial for fraud for eight years. In the second of these reports Judge Lescouvé directly charged Chief Prosecutor Georges Pressard of the Seine, lean-faced brother-in-law of onetime Premier Camille Chautemps, with negligence, a report that forced Pressard's removal from office...
...Especially maddening to old contractors was General Farley's shifting to them the burden of proving their innocence. He declared that, to be eligible, each company must swear none of its officers had been guilty of fraud and collusion. No company officers had been tried, all claimed they were innocent, yet General Farley reserved to himself final judgment of the truth of the companies' affidavits. Only Cord man on the Farley blacklist was R. C. Marshall, a division manager of American Airways, who was quietly detitled last week when American Airways was changed to American Airlines, in which...