Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height of historical irresponsibility," of cashing in on confidences from a dead man, of writing "peephole history," of endangering the national interest. In his defense, he quoted British Philosopher Walter Bagehot: "When a historian withholds important facts likely to influence the judgment of his readers, he commits a fraud." (But Schlesinger himself ignored that injunction when, according to a friend, he decided to omit a similar account of how Kennedy had been planning to dump FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover...
...immediate goal, he said, is legislation to end "injustices to Negroes at the hands of all-white juries." For the jury is "the cornerstone of our system of justice. If its composition is a sham, its judgment is a shame. And when that happens, justice itself is a fraud, casting off the blindfold and tipping the scales one way for whites and another way for Negroes...
...Julius T. Long, 86, elder brother of Louisiana's Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...
...told them what they had dug up for a map was a hoax and a fraud and they probably drew the map up themselves," he said. "They're perpetrating a fraud on the millions of Italian-Americans in the United States...
Scurrying FBI. Last week Judge Wilson overruled the disqualification motion in a scathing, ten-page opinion. Branding Marie Monday's affidavit as "a complete and total fabrication and fraud," he denied ever meeting her or even being at the hotel during the trial. Said he: "It is inconceivable that a sane and reasonable mind could believe that this court, during the course of this trial, would meet in a public facility with a self-admitted prostitute who was a total stranger, and make such expressions as she has sworn to. Surely a judge of the United States of America...