Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber of Deputies would not hear of it until he assured them that this winter's Buenos Aires provincial elections (for 42 out of 158 Chamber seats) would be held under Federal, not provincial, law. This would put an end to a long-established system of election fraud by which Acting President Castillo's National Democratic (conservative) Party gets victories in overwhelmingly Radical precincts. Ramon Castillo had nothing to say. And, faced with the Radicals' stubbornness, the National Democratic minority bolted the Chamber...
...veteran Georges Metaxa for an annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with bigamy and sued for seduction and fraud by the hula dancer he married while Evelyn Thorye was still his wife, won an annulment of the hula marriage, withdrawal of the bigamy case, dismissal of the damage suit, a divorce from Evelyn. He is now in a sanitarium...
...mountain retreat, Tugwell said he was surprised and shocked. But he got a reprieve on carrying out his promise to resign. Tugwell supporters, claiming fraud in the vote, got the student body to agree to another meeting, another vote...
...page finding of fact, Court Commissioner Richard H. Akers found that there was no fraud in the airmail contracts canceled in 1934. Mr. Akers almost charged the President with a mistake, but then backed delicately away, leaving final decision to the Court. But one fact seemed clear: the Army need not have taken over the airmail routes; the deaths of twelve Army pilots were needless...
...graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked out by seventh-graders. > An eighth-grade soap sculpture of a peasant tilling his land with a primitive plow. Back of the peasant is a stone wall. A classmate told the sculptor: "They didn't have stone walls in those days...