Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, witnesses in an El Paso federal courtroom testified about charges of mail fraud and conspiracy against West Texan Billie Sol Estes. Then, for another 50 hours, a jury of two women and ten men (four Negroes) considered the fate of the fertilizer king whose vast, partly imaginary agricultural empire caused national scandal last year. Once, the jurors reported that they were deadlocked. But District Judge Robert E. Thomason refused to declare a hung jury, sent the twelve back to their deliberations with the admonition that "some jury, some time, will have to make a decision in this case...
Clean Front. Dardi's downfall began in 1953 at a Manhattan cocktail party, where he met Lowell M. Birrell, a charming but ruthless looter of companies who has since fled to Brazil and is under indictment for fraud. Birrell was then in control of United Dye, but he needed someone to give him a clean front. He saw in Dardi qualities that he admired; for one thing, Dardi had been involved in some business deals with another Birrell crony, brilliant and amoral Financier Serge Rubinstein (who was later mysteriously strangled in his luxurious home on Manhattan's Fifth...
...only seven years ago to some 84 today and, as usual, the shoddy operators have appeared on the scene. One maker boasts that his belts will withstand 6,000 Ibs.' pressure, when in fact tests have shown that they snap in a 15-m.p.h. collision. To counteract such fraud, 32 leading firms have joined the American Seat Belt Council, which certifies that their belts will take a minimum 4,000 Ibs.' sudden pressure. Detroit has so far played it safe by ordering from such well-established firms as Irving Air Chute Co., Auto-Crat Manufacturing Co., General Tube...
After 53 years of following all the rules, Bank President Harris Filmore made a slip and was sentenced to ten years for fraud. It cost him his wife, his twelve-room house in Westchester and the approval of his peers. He is sent to grim Audton prison, where, as Convict 3355, Filmore is closeted with assorted thieves, rapists and murderers...
Such an attitude is salubrious and refreshing, say Salinger's supporters, for it exposes phoniness and provides amusement. But Salinger the phonyslayer is a bit of a fraud himself. For what are the Glasses but seven faces of the author, and his glorification of them is a triumph of egotism. Far from being amusing, the stories become instead a view into "a terrifying Narcissus pool." Seymour's suicide suggests the author's fear of the possibility of his own faults. "Did Seymour kill himself because he had married a phony... or because he was so happy and the Fat Lady...