Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held as he sees fit. Philadelphia. Another failure which was direct aftermath of the September decline was that of C. Clothier Jones & Co., New York and Philadelphia brokerage house whose socialite partners include Richard Norris Williams II, onetime U. S. tennis champion. Each partner has been charged with fraud, four are out on bail. The firm was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended while Partner Jones was on his way to New York, delayed by New Jersey grass-fires...
Publicity attending the Van Rensselaer Lowestoft fraud suddenly launched upon newspapers and police stations disclosures of other art swindles from institutions and individuals previously too embarrassed to admit their gullibility. With some of these the slick team of Doran, Saunders & Cooke was directly connected, others were the work of rival tricksters...
...pernicious William Wilbur J. Cooke had sold two spurious Stuart Washingtons for $21,000 each, one to Seymour Horace Knox, banker-poloist of Buffalo and East Aurora, N. Y.; one to Walstein C. Findlay of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Findlay fortunately had paid but $5,000 cash when the fraud was discovered...
...Sisto stumbling block is Cosden Oil Co. which has suffered continued liquidation for many months. Likewise, Sisto Financial Corp., offered at $53 a share last year, and believed to be 40%-owned by Mr. Sisto, has dropped steadily. In the Sisto insolvency there was no question of malpractice, fraud. It was simply the inevitable consequence of over-expansion, then shrinking collateral...
Declared Mr. Kelley of the Colorado shale-oil fields: "This is the huge prize to which the large oil interests are endeavoring to secure titles by fraud and failure to comply with the U. S. mining laws. . . . Among those in this combination are several of the very concerns whose fraudulent practices have so recently been exposed in the investigations and trials of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair and others...