Word: frauds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...execution total to 264. In Victoria de las Tunas eight more were condemned. Havana rebels will organize six more courts to speed the trial of 1,500 candidates for "revolutionary justice." The rebels indicted Batista and 24 top officers in absentia for "treason, rebellion, sedition, desertion, malfeasance, robbery and fraud." Foreign embassies in Havana were crowded with 74 exiles who still have not got safe-conduct permits to leave the country...
...would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud on the American people...
...buyer named Etienne Cazals bought $30,000 worth of paintings from Brussels Dealer Jacques Trussart on the basis of authentication by, among others, Paris Art Historian Louis Réau and Art Expert Nino Cordovado. The pictures proved to be deliberate copies, and Trussart & Co. were charged with fraud...
...regime, too, has its weaknesses. It is conceivable that a student will do none of the course reading until he finds out what the paper topic is and then read only what he considers necessary for the paper. Thus the methodical, diligent student would be penalized and the crafty fraud unjustly rewarded. But professors who make sure that the topics they assign are broad enough to require completion of a majority of the required reading can insure that academic virtue is given its own reward. Surely the scope afforded in a paper topic will represent a more satisfactory test...
...District Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr. found Goldfine and faithful Secretary Mildred Paperman guilty of criminal contempt (but postponed their sentence) for not turning over complete records of three Goldfine textile companies to an 80-man Internal Revenue task force fine-combing Goldfine's bewildering financial empire for tax fraud. And as though two contempt trials were not enough, a third gets under way this week. The Securities and Exchange Commission got Goldfine summoned back into Boston's Federal Court, accused him of ignoring a 1955 court order by failing to file last November a semiannual SEC Form...