Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hynes could not match the melodious oratory and easy braggadocio of 74-year-old Jim Curley. But then, he had never been put in jail for fraud either...
...President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as in Occidental Negros Province; U.S. correspondents found that in Manila, the capital, balloting on the whole seemed to be honest. But in most other parts of the islands, the elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and violence...
...James G. Fuller, a notorious confidence man. In the proceedings, it was found that Curley had accepted a $3500 check for services along the way. Therefore, in a trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector ruled that Curley and three other defendants were guilty of mail fraud. But, in his decision, Prector asked for a full review of the case by a higher court; the Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision in a close vote and the Supreme Court refused to review the case. Curley was sentenced to 18 months at Danbury...
...halfback for Harvard. At 74, after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...
...South African government, which was preparing to try Milne on a charge of fraud after one of his companies was thrown into receivership, began investigating. Last week, after three months of digging into the affair, it explained why there had been such a difference in the samples. Said the government: "The gold content of each of three ore samples . . . had been fraudulently increased ... or . . . 'salted...