Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went at the thing just like a reporter, talking to this one and that one. and naturally I got conflicting reports and ideas on the question. Mr. Farley thought it was fraud and collusion, and Mr. Brown, he said, 'they have no case,' and that the bill allowed him to do the things...
Inside the Senate Office Building at Washington all was snug and warm as Senator Black badgered onetime Postmaster General Brown about airmail contracts which the Administration had canceled for "fraud and collusion...
...Chicago Insull's kingly past last week interested Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley, grilling Chicago bankers to see whether fraud had been practiced in getting him to grant a receivership to Insull's great Middle West Utilities Co. Bankers described the uneasy last days of secret meetings and suspicions before the April 1932 crash of Insull's jerry-built Jericho. Said the First National Bank's executive vice president, slow-spoken, huge-shouldered Edward Eagle Brown: "We didn't discuss all this in Mr. Insull's presence. He was the most dominating...
...Americans who still cling to the ancient facts in honesty take heart! This Administration not only speaks to you about justice. It dares to defy the power of concentrated wealth and privilege to secure it. In your name it tells the beneficiary of fraud to surrender his booty...
...airmail contracts flew the U. S. Army last week. Not for a decade had the military hauled the mails in its fighting planes. But now President Roosevelt had declared an "emergency"' as the result of Postmaster General Farley's sudden discovery of what he thought was "fraud and collusion" in the awarding of airmail contracts to private operators by his predecessor, Republican Walter Folger Brown...