Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor of New York City. The Japanese quit the League of Nations over Manchuria. Germany fell under Adolf Hitler's sway. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the U. S. The U. S. went off the gold standard. Beer came back. And still the National Diversified Corp. fraud trial ran on & on in Manhattan Federal Court...
...years ago Tennessee's most potent publisher was big, dynamic Colonel Luke Lea, an A. E. F. artillery officer and onetime Senator. Today he is a man stripped and broken by adversity, desperately fighting extradition to North Carolina where a six-to-ten year prison sentence for bank fraud awaits him. With his crony, Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, Col. Lea was strong in State politics. With his able son Luke Jr. who is also fighting extradition and a heavy fine, he ran the Nashville Tennesseeans (morning & evening), the Knoxville Journal, the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal. Since...
President Roosevelt started out to get a law which would effectively tell the buyer of a bond or a stock what he was buying, and thereby put an end to a system which permitted fraud & folly. After several ridiculous attempts had been made to write the Securities Act it was turned over to Professor Frankfurter, who did not become the New Deal's Attorney General as some had expected, but is nevertheless part of the Brain Trust. Felix Frankfurter, disgusted with much of the "American System," had reason to rejoice last week in the almost unanimous opinion that...
...Both Mr. Steuer and U. S. Attorney Medalie tell the jury the same story. But according to Lawyer Steuer, the onetime boss of National City Bank is a man who was "inspired in every act . . . only by the highest, noblest motives." And, according to Lawyer Medalie, he is a fraud, a cheat, a sanctimonious swindler...
Their country left alone as the only world power still on gold, French bankers privately denounced the President's action as a "political fraud, too clever to be successful." Cried the Journal des Debats: "We would be playing the dupe to continue distributing gold. . . ." But sitting on top of a $3,170,000,000 reserve Marianne la France vowed she would not go off gold...