Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graceful winner. The companies, he said, had resorted to "bitterness, injustice, trickery and reactionism which would do justice to slaveowners"; they had engaged in a "vile, indecent, malicious and filthy campaign of libel, slander and vilification." Crowed the Czar: "Honesty and fairness had now triumphed over falsity and fraud. ... If they, the companies, fail to change [their past course], the A.F.M. will not hesitate to break off relations and leave them to die by their own nefarious schemes...
...Common Fraud." He "got quite a laugh," he said, when he read the liberal labor plank in the 1944 GOPlatform, endorsed by the very men who "have personally spent years of effort and energy-and much money-in fighting every one of those [New Deal] laws in the Congress and in the press and in the courts. . . ." This, he said, was "a fair example of their insincerity and inconsistency." He described what he called the effort of the Republican Old Guard to switch labels with the New Deal as "the most obvious common or garden variety of fraud...
...United States [Army] could put into the field . . . no more than 75,000 men. The Army was only '25% ready.' Now, Mr. Roosevelt, did those statements come from Goebbels? Was that fraud or falsification? Those are the words of General George C. Marshall...
...fairy godfather named Jackeen J. O'Malley. O'Malley's round figure is no taller than Barnaby's, is equipped with two small wings and a magic wand in the form of a fat cigar. O'Malley is a thoroughgoing Micawber-type fraud who never brings off his constantly promised miracles, but never alienates his small disciple's faith in him. O'Malley's companions are: 1) Atlas the Mental Giant, a bull-necked gnome who computes all problems on a slide rule; 2) Launcelot McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who speaks thick...
...began to count. Never had he seen so many pregnant romanas trudging back from visits to the countryside. He remembered Mussolini and his medals for motherhood. But Il Duce was gone. Could it be that his works were marching on? The suspicious carabiniere decided to investigate, uncovered a widespread fraud. In fitted containers under their clothes the "pregnant" women were delivering olive oil to Rome's black-market buyers. A few days of prenatal checkups yielded ten tons...