Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trumpet-loud, trumpet-blasty is the voice of New Hampshire's Senator Charles William Tobey, Republican. As a member of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee he investigated vote-fraud charges in New Jersey, found conditions that made him peal with indignation. Last week his brassy solo became a duet when Boss Frank Hague stalked into the committee's hearings (a subpoena had brought him). Boss Hague proved to be no piccolo player himself...
...coming election. Their most recent success was yesterday's decision of the New York Supreme Court barring the Communists from that State's election lists. Already ten other states have done this; and in Pittsburgh forty-three Communist petition circulators, including a Harvard graduate, await trial on charges of fraud. The story in the Smoky City is typical of Legion strategy...
...every list: "Communist Party Petition." Signers missed that, because they were "shaving at the time I signed" or "waiting for a streetcar." Meanwhile, as signatures fled from their lists, the Communists found themselves not only kicked out of the polls but dragged into the courts with a trial for fraud. The Legion-Hearst-Scripps-Howard entente's victory was complete--but it's still not clear what they were fighting...
After getting Charles F. Stoebling, former county commissioner of registration, to concede reluctantly that it was a "fraud" for three men to write in the same name 60 times in the poll books, Senator Tobey let go with both barrels, roared...
...After all this was over, didn't you burn with righteous indignation? Didn't every fibre of your being vibrate with rage? How did you react to the horror, the heinousness, the chicanery and the utter fraud that was done, Mr. Stoebling...