Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial for statutory rape was about to come to a premature end. Alleged rapee Betty Hansen had told her intimate story in court. Admiring women had ogled Flynn in court and begged his autograph. Then a bombshell was exploded by the prosecution in accusing two jurors (women) of using fraud and deceit in their eagerness to get on the jury-concealing the fact that they had already made up their minds about the case. But after a conference the judge dismissed one juror and ordered the case to go on-saving the show from a dreadful anticlimax...
...plot is wholesomely simple with Ann buying a collection of antiques including a ramshackle house where George Washington was said to have spent a night. Relations with a crotchety neighbor, a fraud of a rich uncle, are the stronger parts of the picture; and a slow-witted caretaker steals scenes from even the veteran lead. The tolerating Benny finally pays for putting the house shipshape, only to have the mortgage fall due. A sort of divinely arranged solution turns up quite timely and everybody goes off sufficiently happy. It kind of leaves the audience on the loose end of things...
...World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged it after the Emperor signed...
...Star's story (ENEMY AIR-RAID MARKER STORY JUST A HOAX) caught the War Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers...
...modern dictatorships are unspeakable is not merely because of their murders and their concentration camps. Men can fight that kind of tyranny. The bigger reason why the modern dictatorships are unspeakable is that they corrupt the mind from within. They suppress the truth. They lead men by lies and fraud to desire and acquiesce in their own enslavement. And how is this corruption brought about? By the destruction of journalism...