Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found in the dole administration, after Ford Motor Co. officials had charged "criminal negligence" and cited hundreds of dole-getters who were also drawing Ford...
...Egyptian Fraud. As everyone knows, Great Britain must control the Suez Canal, vital "backbone" of Empire trade. Therefore she must control Egypt. She does so through Puppet-King Fuad. In the past two years His Majesty has cut himself off, step by step, from the Egyptian people and their elected representatives. When the anti-British and popular Wafd party won the last election by a majority of 19 to 1 over all opponents combined (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), it became clear that if King Fuad was to remain on his throne and remain a British puppet the next election would...
Rumanian Cheat. Somewhat less revolting than the Egyptian fraud was Rumania's election last week - for in Ru mania each party has its turn at cheating...
Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America...
Journalism, To the Atlanta Constitution, a gold medal worth $500 for "most disinterested and meritorious public serv- ice": a probe, instigated by able Editor Clark Howell, of corruption in Atlanta's municipal government, resulting so far in eleven convictions and ten pleas of guilt to charges of fraud, bribery...