Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soldiers on the Hustings. Aware that the phrase "Algerian-type election" has long been a byword for fraud, the Gaullists are making every effort to assure an honest count, have sent hundreds of volunteer election commissioners from France to administer the balloting. For the first time, De Gaulle has allowed Moslems and Frenchmen to vote on a single list, opened the voting to Moslem women...
...peddle his story to the New York Post and the Journal-American more than a year ago, and neither paper had been sufficiently convinced to print it. He had also signed a "confession" for Enright, stating that his charges had been false. But last week, when Stempel repeated his fraud story to the district attorney, the World-Telegram & Sun and the Journal published it-and were promptly sued for libel by Barry & Enright Productions...
LOUIS WOLFSON got out from under SEC charges of manipulating American Motors Co. stock by signing consent decree pledging not to perpetrate "fraud or deceit" on future buyers of A.M.C. shares. SEC action was light wrist slap for Wolfson, who made about $1.7 million in A.M.C. stock dealings, now avoids a public airing of his deals. But in future attempts to move in on corporations, Raider Wolfson probably will have to show on his proxy that he was once restrained by SEC for fraud...
...weak schizophrenic who sees the world and normal people masked against him. Spying on his own inner self, or on the girl and her father, becomes more important to him than anything that can happen in the workaday world, which in any case he thinks is a fraud. The girl is not unlike him: "She picks up the scent of things people are ashamed of; she sniffs at implied meanings, follows through the traces of hidden humiliations, unable to break away from them...
...everything-$4,000 a week, a villa with retractable ceilings over the indoor pool, a nervous breakdown. She tries religion for a while, decides she likes whisky better. After that, she just stumbles along from drink to drink, sedative to sedative, picture to picture. "Life really is a fraud, isn't it?" she sighs one day through the barbiturate haze to the "companion" who is now in constant attendance. "I'm 31 years old, and I look back on it, and all I can think of to say is-so what...