Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheriff. Detective Martin reported to the Governor and Chief of State Police as follows: "After having made a thorough investigation of the alleged kidnapping . . . and after having taken long statements from 3 7 witnesses and going over the grounds . . . it is our firm belief that this . . . case is . . . a fraud and hoax perpetrated upon the Governor, the officials and the people of the State of New Mexico...
...pillowcase (to thwart photographers), Earl Browder stepped off a train last week at Atlanta, Ga. He was shackled to two Negro prisoners, escorted by G-Men. His destination: the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta. The Kansas-born Communist leader and onetime Presidential candidate was going to prison for passport fraud. Sentence: four years. By good behavior he could get out in three years, four months...
...Federal statute books since 1863 has been a queer old law passed to curb Civil War profiteering. The law: any citizen who learned of fraud against the U. S. could sue to recover the losses for his Government, plus as much again for him to keep for his pains. For a long time a young Pittsburgh lawyer named Morris Leo Marcus has believed that there was life in the old statute yet. Last week his theory proved to be worth...
...Soviet Union"-Daily Worker). But in a Washington that is far more conscious of politics than it is of the war, most of the talk of citizen to citizen raged on the question of Willkie and the Republican Party ("We leave the barefoot boy of Elwood . . . as a barefaced fraud"-Chicago Tribune...
...colloquial, salty editorials clamored for "a new declaration of independence" from Britain; daily he labeled H.R. 1776 the "Dictatorship Bill." Cousin Bertie McCormick was free to concentrate his main fulminations against Willkie's "treachery," reading him out of the Republican Party as "the Republican Quisling," "a barefaced fraud," "Roosevelt's Charlie McCarthy." At the Lend-Lease hearings in Washington last month Cousin Bertie came out of his aristocratic tower bellowing in the manner of Cousin Joe, "I'm very willing to let Britain have whatever she needs, and I think she doesn't need anything...