Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administrator Newton has spent a good chunk of his life making things plain. A graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...last week came a report of the Roman Catholic Church's extraordinary measure to rob her story of pious authenticity. Having found her a fraud, the congregation of the Holy Office excommunicated...
...more powerful ministers, scorned by his people, Ramon Castillo had come to the end of the road called Prudent Neutrality. There was only one course: resign. This Castillo did at the headquarters of the 7th Infantry. He had gained office through accident and stayed in office through fraud. Now he turned over the reigns of government to a military junta which did not seem to know where it was going but at least was aware that prudence in 1943 means cooperation with the United Nations...
...rule of the elite is based upon force and fraud-whether called democracy, fascism, socialism or whatever. > Society is a mixture of political formula and myth...
...Russia, grossly misrepresents the United States, and would not sell international cooperation to anybody." Author Max Eastman (Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism) considered it "the high point of a wave of national self-abasement." Literary Critic Edmund Wilson, a onetime Marxist, saw it as a "fraud on the American people...