Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May, National Diversified Corp. went bankrupt. It took a long time for the dupes to realize their status. After realization came intelligent action.. The promoters had used the mails in their fraud. On that score a Federal Grand Jury indicted the wicked seven last week...
Acquitted of fraud in Budapest last week, Bookseller Bischl triumphantly regaled reporters with the story of how he had sold 2,000 copies of a cookbook to women through the mails by advertising: This Book Is Guaranteed to Tell What A Girl Ought To Know Before Marriage...
That a female was actually aroused to the point of pocketing her dignity and suing Bookseller Bischl for fraud was due, he thought, to the real title (not advertised) of the book, Lazy Little Lulu Learns to Cook...
When the $300,000 experiments of Alchemist Tausend failed, he was charged with fraud. Last week he was tried in Munich...
Summoned among other talesmen for a Federal jury to try a mail fraud case in Manhattan, John Davison Rockefeller III, 24, was asked if he did not want to be excused; that it could be arranged. Said he: "I believe that any one summoned for jury duty should serve if he can." When defense attorneys asked the talesman: "Is any person connected with any of your families a member of the New York Stock Exchange?" he raised his hand and revealed what few persons know: "My grandfather is a member." Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson...