Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cells, of 20 to 30 members apiece, take orders from society headquarters, promote Communist-style front organizations that do not use the John Birch name. Carefully avoiding normal channels of political action, the society accepts the hardboiled, dictatorial direction of one man who sees democracy as a "perennial fraud" and estimates that the U.S. is 40% to 60% Communist-controlled. In other times, other places, the John Birch "Americanists" -as they call themselves ¶might seem a tiresome, comic-opera joke. But already the society admits to cells in 35 states, and its partisans have made their anonymous and unsettling...
...after a career of teaching (University of Virginia, Tulane) and heading up the educational activities of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Almost from his first column, he infuriated the abstract expressionists, chiefly by the wicked suggestion that although what they painted might be art, it could also be fraud. He lamented the school's influence, questioned its competence, doubted its goals, even predicted its eventual demise...
...Though marked for purge by F.D.R. in 1938, Tydings won re-election by a record plurality, ranked third in senatorial service by July 1950 when, during two hours of inspired invective, he summarized a subcommittee report labeling McCarthy's charge of Communist penetration of the State Department "a fraud and a hoax" on the U.S. public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate...
...office last summer persuaded the gyms to sign a fair practices code to prohibit methods of selling that are deceitful, fraudulent or misleading. The New York complaints have slowed to a trickle. Actually, many of the complaints against Tanny across the U.S. are caused by fatigue, not fraud. Many a newly won health and exercise bug gets drooping wings after a few weeks or months of working out. His enthusiasm gone, he wants to get out of his contract, looks for any excuse...
MacDonald began his strike on February 1 to call attention to a recent Soviet action in which Mrs. Ivinskaya and her daughter were given long prison sentences for alleged currency fraud. Apparently, the action was prompted by her former association with the Russian poet. Pasternak once wrote that "an attack upon her is an attack...