Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies to demand that Stalin lift the iron curtain is plain stupid. He is not yet ready to commit suicide. If intercourse is established between Russia and the people of the world, that will be the end of Stalin and Communism. The most gigantic fraud in history will be disclosed and its collapse will be certain. . . . Stalin knows the democracies better than they know themselves...
...Gigantic Fraud...
Chester Bowles cried "Fraud," and pictured the U.S. embarking on a "joy ride to inflation." Caustically, Georgia's Senator Walter George replied: "Chester Bowles is the most inflated product that I know...
Economic Stabilizer Bowles called the bill "an outright fraud . . . a monstrous thing" and promised to ask for a presidential veto if the bill passed in its present state. C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded an ominous warning of new outbreaks of labor unrest...
...practice spread to England when German miners were imported to Cornwall during the reign of good Queen Bess. Some religious authorities condemned it as fraud or dealing with the devil. Others gave it clerical approval. From England, it emigrated to the U.S., where it is still going strong, with most of the emphasis on water-finding. Modern, up-to-date dowsers often abandon the hallowed forked stick for an elaborate gadget pretending to use some scientific phenomenon, such as radioactivity or radar. That is dowsing just the same...