Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed grave concern over the existence of schools in Massachusetts which have been granted charters by the state but which have "met no standards of educational decency, and offer nothing more than a scrap of paper which they call 'degree.'" Doherty singled out Boston's Avon University as a "fraud and deceit," and maintained that the real intention of the bills was to alleviate the conditions caused by such institutions...
From Boston came the last begorra of the late James Michael Curley, sometime mayor, Governor and U.S. Congressman. Although often accused of sticky fingers and once imprisoned for five months on conviction of mail fraud, Curley-according to an accounting of his will filed last week-left a net estate of only...
...John Kennedy are not boon companions. In the past, the President and the new Speaker have had several well-publicized clashes, beginning with Kennedy's refusal, as a downy-cheeked Congressman, to sign McCormack's petition for the pardon of James M. Curley from his mail-fraud jail sentence (Curley had been the bitter foe of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the President's grandfather, and therefore anathema to the unforgiving Kennedy family). That same year, Kennedy seized the Massachusetts Democratic organization from McCormack: the two men had agreed to a compromise, but the McCormack-endorsed candidate for state...
Running against Kuchel in the primary is Howard Jarvis, a former Los Angeles aircraft manufacturer, who appeals to the Birchers for support, declares he is against foreign aid, federal aid to education ("a fraud and a snare"), and the United Nations ("It hasn't accomplished a thing except to permit a spy ring to operate within our country"). Also opposing Kuchel is Loyd Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association, who is campaigning as a states' rights fundamentalist. Although not a Birch Society member, Wright says, "I wish we had 10,000 more -perhaps 10 million...
...these luminaries of malefaction, readers may meet such relative unknowns as High-Finance Crook Ernest Hooley, who used part of his ill-got gains to become the patron of twelve ecclesiastical livings for parish priests in rural England, or Leopold Harris, who was so great an expert on fraud that his prison cell became an office where he scrutinized documents for the British authorities. Or there is the Portuguese Bank Note Case of the 1920s, in which a band of smooth, velvety swindlers talked the Bank of Portugal's official printers-a posh British firm-into engraving 100 million...