Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Wilhelm Marx, 83, scholarly Chancellor of pre-Nazi Germany (1923-24, 1926-28), who tried to solve the knotty reparations problem by agreeing to the Dawes Plan, in 1925 the unsuccessful opponent of Hindenburg for the presidency; in Bonn, Germany. The Nazis indicted him for fraud but they never pressed the charges, allowed him to sink into obscurity, where American troops found him in 1945, "bewildered by events," ignored by his people, all but forgotten by the world...
...Caffrey, 48, the SEC had a chairman Wall Street liked. A graduate of Harvard, Jim Caffrey had joined SEC in 1935 after twelve years of legal practice in his native Boston. He made a name for himself by handling more fraud cases than any other SEC man. He also made a name as a man who knew Wall Street's problems and talked its language, a man who regarded SEC strictly as a regulatory agency, not a political club. Most Wall Streeters thought they would get along fine with Jim Caffrey...
Ezequiel Padilla finally shook hands with President-elect Miguel Alemán. The fraud charges would be dropped. Even if there had been occasional sleight of hand in the ballot counting, the final result was too conclusive to doubt: Alemán 1,800,829, Padilla...
...General Accounting Office made a report: Maritime Commission books had been kept so badly that GAO could not find out how the money had been spent. Apparently, there were no records on $910,494,372 worth of ships which the Commission built. GAO had uncovered no record of fraud; it was just wondering what happened...
...battles for control of polling booths. For the first time, soldiers stood guard on election day. As returns poured in, Candidate Miguel Aleman claimed certain victory. The support given him by the Government bureaucracy and the big labor unions made his claim sound valid. Opposition Candidate Ezequiel Padilla shouted "fraud...