Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered to cough up $85,000 owed the city of Boston after his third term as mayor...
...proved to be simple, disarmingly unsophisticated-a kind of fraudulent folk poetry. For Selznick he once flew "the entire town" of Zenda. Ont. (pop. 12) to Manhattan to attend the premiere of The Prisoner of Zenda. After the Bird set up his own office, he encouraged indignant cries of fraud by claiming that he had insured a client (Southern Starlet Margaret Tallichet) for $1,000,000 against the loss of her drawl. Smugly he was able to exhibit the policy; he had indeed insured Margaret-for one day, at the cost...
...convention last June, Endicott (Chub) Peabody seemed to have the edge over Edward J. McCormack, Jr., nephew of the Democratic Congressional majority leader. When the party convened, however, a fierce battle ensued and police had to be called in to prevent a riot. Amid charges of vote buying and fraud, McCormack won the nomination. Peabody immediately announced he would contest the decision in the primary...
...personable figure and able campaigner. As the Democrats fought among themselves, Herter built himself up in the public image as a candidate untainted by corruption and politics. Recently he has been using taped recordings of Peabody's convention speeches denouncing McCormack, with Democrats in the background yelling "fraud...
...film, at any rate, there is little danger of confusion. Boston's Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...