Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierrette's father, a Val d'Or clerk, has been fearful that his daughter's fame would spread too fast, that his family would incur the wrath of the Church.* The Church itself, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth and fraud, forbids recognition of any person's "miracles," no matter how well documented, as long as the person is alive. In Pierrette's case, the Church has been scrupulously uncommunicative...
...history. I spent more time and effort in China on this than on any other subject, including a morning discussing it with Mr. Lin Tsu-han, the chairman of their soviet government, the so-called border region government, and I can assure you that their propaganda is a gigantic fraud. They know, like Hitler, that if a big claim is made often enough, a lot of people will come to believe it is the truth...
...girl's an impostress," retorted Sir Crisp, the Lord Mayor, promptly ordering the pardon of Mary Squires. Others called her a fraud comparable to the Rabbit Woman, who had set all London by its gullible ears with her claim "to have borne an incredible number of rabbits at a birth...
Last December Elva walked into Kansas City's swank Harzfeld's store, charmed a clerk into selling her nearly $300 worth of clothes on someone else's charge account. By the time the fraud was discovered, Elva had gone back to the campus at Lawrence, distributed a good bit of the stuff as Christmas presents to friends, and settled down with her new clothes to enjoy a new popularity...
Norman Littell was particularly harassed, he said, by a Justice Department fraud investigation of Savannah Shipyard Co., represented in Washington by Corcoran...