Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coke Stevenson cried "fraud," and charged that 202 votes had been added to Johnson's total after the polls were closed in Jim Wells County, which is a Parr stronghold. He had affidavits from citizens of the county, who swore they had not voted although the lists showed they had. But Johnson offered affidavits from the same people, in which they swore that Stevenson's men had intimidated them into making their charges. The committee voted, 29 to 28, to include the protested votes and certify Johnson as the winner. Coke Stevenson stalked out, started legal moves...
...year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that it had been "procured from Mrs. Patterson by fraud and deceit exercised upon her by some person or persons unknown...
...Earl was a feuding man. The next year, when the U.S. Senate investigated charges of fraud in the Louisiana senatorial primary, Earl hurried to testify against Huey. The brothers faced each other for hours, faces distorted, arms flailing. Earl testified that Huey had told him that a man named Abell (H. C. Abell, New York representative of Electric Bond & Share Co.) had "given him $10,000 and Huey was sort of afraid to use it for fear it was marked...
...suit protesting it. Eaton used the suit as an occasion for calling the whole thing off. In its 5,219 pages of testimony, SEC found "information which tends, if true, to show that" Eaton was behind Masterson's protest. To the SEC, it looked like a case of "fraud and deceit...
...Hollywood's hoary old sensation-monger James M. Cain tells the story of a nice boy-nice, that is, by comparison with other guys he has written about. Mr. Cain's new hero has a sense of beauty and even a sense of guilt. His missteps, including fraud, adultery, a few burglaries and one stickup, are practically forced upon him by the Great Depression. Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that...