Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform of widespread fraud. Before Dana had finished, every street urchin knew the phrase, and Kemble was behind bars. Even President Cleveland feared the power of Dana's pen, tried to buy up the Sun to muzzle his attacks. In the 30 years of Dana's reign, the Sun trebled its circulation...
...FRAUD PENALTY PAID TO GOVERNMENT...
...applying the heat" to the NRA campaign began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility company which claimed...
...pictures of a thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." Superfilm from National Diversified was to be called Mary, The Virgin. The company did produce two cinemas featuring Eddie Dowling, good Catholic comedian, before going into bankruptcy in 1930. The Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness of its Federal prosecutor, Jacob J. Rosenblum. The defense introduced 30 wit nesses, the prosecution 68. It took two clerks to keep the 941 exhibits straight. After three months one of the two alter nate jurors died...
Many an honest seller of an honest stock worried last week and hedged himself about with every precaution. Although the registration of securities becomes compulsory only this month, securities issued since the law was passed are subject to its fraud provisions...