Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having no insurance, he was perpetrating no fraud. "A man has as much right to burn his home down as he has to tear it down," said Edward Frances Murphy. His reason for so doing: he hated his neighbors...
Last week the delegates of the All-India Congress Committee met for the annual elections. Unexpectedly they turned thumbs down on Leader Gandhi's man, re-elected Leftist Bose, by a vote of 1,575-to-1,376. Saint Gandhi took his defeat hard. He charged fraud, claimed the Congress was fast becoming a "corrupt organization" and intimated that his supporters might bolt the Congress organization. The Mahatma himself is not a dues-paying member of Congress. To President Bose his re-election was simply a victory for anti-federation...
...guess he would have me come over wearing my clerical collar-and get murdered. . . . Any word or action of the Spanish Loyalist Government friendly to the Church must be taken as a sign of fraud, or of self-deception, or of the repudiation of its principles...
...listing, "without question," to any person who holds an approved position in the U. S. ("heads of the established institutions of learning . . . bishops and chief ecclesiastics . . . presidents of the larger national businesses . . ."). The editors of Who's Who feel that, in their 77,000 listings, "the Coster-Musica fraud has every indication of being unique...
Colwell Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, said that all cases of the fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...