Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNinch, onetime mayor of Charlotte, to the reorganized Federal Power Commission as a Democrat,?than Democrats began to protest that Mr. McNinch was no good party man (TIME, Dec. 15). Appointee McNinch in 1928 had proclaimed that Alfred Emanuel Smith "procured his nomination at Houston by stealth and fraud." He had headed the State's Anti-Smith Democratic Committee, raised and spent $30,906 to turn North Carolina Republican. Last week Mr. McNinch was summoned before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to explain his politics, his qualifications...
...making. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. asked receiver-ships for the Tennessee Publishing Co. (Tennesseans) and Southern Publishers, Inc. (Journal, Appeals). A third action by the receiver for Liberty Bank & Trust Co. demanded return of $166,000 obtained by Colonel Lea, his son Vice President Luke Jr. and others "by fraud and connivance." Reason given for the receivership suits: Partners Lea & Caldwell were guilty of "conversion, perversion, waste and misuse" of newspaper funds, and mismanagement of the papers...
Liberty Bank's charge of fraud was most emphatically denied by handsome young Luke Lea Jr. in the absence of his father. Young Luke, who looks much like the Colonel, is admiringly called a block chip by his father's friends. Before Luke Jr. was 21, Colonel Lea had a special bill put through the legislature to give him legal majority and qualify him as a responsible business associate...
Most London editors denounced the 'trial as bare-faced fraud and propaganda, suggested that Professor Ramzin will never be shot, though his execution may be "officially announced." A large section of the Paris press demanded that Prime Minister Andre Tardieu recall the French Ambassador from Moscow, break off Russo-French relations-but M. Tardieu was not stampeded. Throughout the U. S., editors appeared puzzled by the goings on at Moscow, anxious but unable to believe them faked. Typically the New York Herald Tribune seemed to have faith that Professor Ramzin will actually be executed if convicted, but found inexplicable...
...Federal power, he did tell newsgatherers that concerted Federal action would be taken against the thriving Underworld. He said the line would be prosecution for violations of the income-tax and other (Volstead, Harrison, Mann, Dyer) Government statutes (TIME, May 19). He cited the indictment for income-tax fraud of Scarface's brother, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, to illustrate the kind of action he meant...