Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous weekend, as a kind of warmup, there had been a turbulent election in San Juan Province, where two men had been killed and 84 ballot boxes destroyed. With charges and countercharges of fraud, no results, have yet been published...
...Communist, Russian-born, 36-year-old William Schneiderman, secretary of the California Communist Party, was in danger of losing his U.S. citizenship. Two courts have held that Schneiderman should be deprived of citizenship because his oath of allegiance to the U.S., 14 years ago, was a fraud, since Communists' first allegiance is to the U.S.S.R. Schneiderman's appeal has reached the Supreme Court, will be argued there next month...
Miss Ferber's noisy, flashing manner never really gives you a period, but always makes you enjoy the fraud. Saratoga Trunk is so neatly made that the scenarists need only bracket the non-dialogue as stage direction, and call it a half-day's work...
...Hearst's salary (once $500,000 a year) although he spent just as much time in behalf of his private interests; that in general Consolidated had been forced to. pay the freight for the Hearst empire. The court absolved Hearst, his companies and the Consolidated directors of fraud, took occasion to say one of the nicest things William Hearst has heard about himself for a long time ("extraordinary ability . . . phenomenal success . . ."). To John Francis Neylan, attorney who conceived the idea of Consolidated and became its chief executive officer, the court was equally flattering ("zealous in the protection...
...that kind of money, Samuel Mann & son were entitled to feel pretty good. But Hearst and his associates were absolved of fraud or bad faith. Aware that most of the verdict could be paid off by canceling a $4,200,000 Consolidated debt to the upstream companies, they thought that they had won the suit...