Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers: "The Brannan plan is a fraud on its face because it seeks to guarantee high prices to the farmer as well as the price the consumer would be willing to pay, with the difference being met by the taxpayer. It is a fraud because the farmer and the consumer are the taxpayers...
...prosecution's evidence was overwhelming. Thomas had padded his congressional payroll for eight years with fictitious employees and pocketed most of their salaries for himself. On the third day of his trial for fraud, as some of Congressman Thomas' non-working "employees" prepared to testify against him, he surrendered. He withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a no-contest plea to four charges of conspiracy and fraud. Liable to as much as 32 years in prison and fines totalling $40,000, Parnell Thomas hoped for mercy-a quality he had never shown in his ruthless badgering...
...Young Progressives last night accused the Combined Charities Drive of "deliberate fraud and misrepresentation" and two hours later admitted they were wrong...
Because of the alleged front organization, YPH said "we hereby charge the Student Council and its Combined Charity Drive with deliberate fraud and misrepresentation." Last night the Progressives confessed it was all a mistake...
Herbert Aptheker, the associate editor of "Masses & Mainstream," who last month called Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., associate professor of History, a fraud is an article in his magazine, will reiterate this charge verbally at a John Reed Club forum at 7:45 p.m. tonight in Emerson...