Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta pen went the late Huey Long's onetime social tutor and short-time political heir, bald Seymour Weiss, paroled after serving about half of his 30-month sentence for mail fraud...
...Aires Province was going to vote again because of earlier irregularities, rough estimates of the election results showed an overwhelming victory for Castillo's Concordancia (Conservative coalition): 1,150,000 votes against the Radicals' 580,000, the Socialists' 180,000. These figures were somewhat fogged by fraud, abstentionism (illegal refusal to vote) and blank ballots, but one fact stood out sharp and paradoxical: the majority of voters' well-founded hatred of Castillo's reactionary internal regime had been overcome by their support of his xenophobic foreign policy. It was a peace plebiscite worth many paid...
...Basque diminutive for Raymond) is separated from his Gracieuse by the army's call, then lost to her forever through the machinations of the girl's mother, who intercepts all their letters, thus driving the brokenhearted daughter into holy orders. When Ramuntcho returns and exposes the fraud, it is too late. Her heart belongs...
There is one Manhattan publishing house the less since a Federal jury found sleek, Italian-born Carlo M. Flumiani guilty on 12 charges of mail fraud last fortnight. This week Judge Simon H. Rifking sentenced him to 18 months in jail, a $2,500 fine. But nobody will miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...
...police had plenty to do. There were scores of fights, several shootings. One man was killed, twelve others wounded. As expected, Radicals promptly charged widespread fraud, talked darkly of "taking to the streets" if they...