Word: frauds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wheat plant is capable of very rapid development. In proving this thesis, Lysenko is short on controlled experimentation and long on thundering Marxist phrases like "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Many non-Communist geneticists consider him a politically motivated fraud...
...tried to register some oil royalty trust certificates. When SEC objected to his registration statement, Jones tried to withdraw it. SEC refused to let him, so he fought the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, April 13, 1936). Shortly after, Jones was indicted for mail fraud. He won again, although the money he spent fighting the two cases drove his company into bankruptcy, left him with a $700,000 debt. Since then, as president of Louisiana's tiny Sugarfield Oil Co. (production: 725 barrels daily), he has been trying to recoup...
...been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for contempt of Congress. Last week, a month and a day after he was brought to trial in Wiashington's District Court, a federal jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of passport fraud. Maximum penalty: five years and $5,000 fine...
...Boston, a midnight fire broke out in Mayor James Michael Curley's home, burned out the dining room. Estimated damage: $2,500. Nobody was home (His Honor was still doing six to 18 months for mail fraud...
Midnight (supposedly the deadline) passed. The battle went on. The Republicans were trying to force a renewal of the Kansas City vote fraud investigation (TIME, June 16). They believed (or hoped) that the investigation would turn up evidence that the Democratic machine in Kansas City had falsified primary election returns last August-and that machine was very close to Harry Truman; it had put him in the Senate. The behavior of the Democratic Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation...