Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collection of the originals of the Ireland forgeries, the well-known literary fraud of the eighteenth century, have recently been acquired by the Harvard College Library. These papers comprise the most famous and the most successful of Shakespearian forgeries, and include both letters which purported to be in his handwriting and pages of the manuscripts of his plays. The author of the forgeries, William Henry Ireland, published them in 1796, claiming to have discovered them in his attic. For a while the forgeries were accepted as authentic by leading authorities to whom Ireland submitted them for examination, but eventually pressure...
...TIME of July 20 you say that fraud and embezzlement were found in the dole administration AFTER Ford Motor Company officials cited hundreds of dole getters who were also drawing Ford pay. Additional facts are necessary to give the truth. The first and only significant embezzlement was discovered by two young bankers who became suspicious of the sudden wealth of one Alex F. Lewis, a clerk in the welfare department, who through an ingenious fraud obtained $207,000. He fooled not only the welfare administration but the Detroit Yacht Club which admitted him to membership and the Ford Motor Company...
...influence in setting aside a city tax levy on a $2,000,000 Ford tunnel. The chief of the Ford Motor Company police department was chosen as the Ford spokesman. He hurled charges wild and vague, finally narrowing them down to 329 specific cases of "apparent fraud" in which Ford workmen accepted city welfare. To date less than 100 of these cases have been shown to be fraudulent-100 cases...
...that as a result of the fraud disclosures welfare expenditures in Detroit have been limited to $300,000 a month. This is definitely untrue. By Councilmanic mandate poor relief expenditures (doles) have been limited to $400,000 for July, August and September. When this $1,200,000 has been spent, $5,700,000 will be provided by Common Council for poor relief in the next nine months...
...penitentiaries, enlarged and yet overcrowded; juvenile crime . . . divorce, with states like Nevada and Arkansas feverishly competing in the effort to make divorce easier, quicker and cheaper; apostles of free love and loose moral leaders . . . quicksand of companionate marriage, childless families . . . collapse of family felicity; our business world with its fraud and connivance . . . professional impurity . . . commercialized vice...