Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defunct "Back to Africa" movement, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, purple-gowned head of the Sublime Order of the Nile and the Knights of Uganda ; in London. He organized the Black Star steamship line to transport his people to their homeland, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, subsequently deported...
Last week U. S. criminal statutes tangled the feet of one of the nimblest and boldest industrial quarterbacks who ever lived. Indicted on 19 counts for fraud and conspiracy was fat, ill Howard Hopson, who for 18 years called the plays for flashy Associated Gas & Electric System (now in the bankruptcy courts). Among those indicted with Hoppy were three running mates: his banker-leg man Fred Burroughs, his lawyers, Charles Travis and Garrett Brownback...
Last week the Reorganized Mormons, still seething, decided to bring libel suits against Novelist Fisher and his publishers. Author Fisher was unperturbed. "Joseph Smith has been called epileptic, fraud, drunkard, thief, libertine and murderer," said he. "I have made him a great and lovable man and not an impostor. . . ." He added that a round dozen people had written him that they had been converted to Mormonism by reading his novel...
...Congress was ready to award him $100,000, but Chemist Jackson stormed Washington, violently denounced Morton as a fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered...
University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between...