Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nondeductible Sex. In the Genial Society, everybody is too genial about major and minor fraud. Parents are light fingered with the maid's social security payments; Dad might "gift" the cop on the beat with a fifth of whisky for overlooking his daily parking violation; the children, taking their cue from the elders, might crib on an exam or lie about a date...
...Finest Goddam Articles." Finally, Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall produced the truth. According to Newhall, it was not fraud-just tender-footedness. After watching his wife and daughters weaken from malnutrition and dysentery, Bud Boyd had marched out, returned with mounts, Rancher Proctor, the spaghetti, and other restoratives. Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home...
...Greece. This theory was largely the work of Oxford Professor Sir Arthur Evans, who excavated Knossos in 1900-05. Sir Arthur died in 1941 at the age of 90, a revered figure in archaeology, but last week he was the center of a furious controversy, accused of archaeological fraud to support Cretan glories...
...terms in the House, Jack kept his distance from the machine-tooled Massachusetts delegation (he was the only member to refuse to sign a petition for a presidential pardon for the doughty James Michael Curley, his grandfather Fitzgerald's ancient political rival-then languishing in jail for mail fraud). In 1952 Jack was ready to play for higher stakes. At the clan councils he toyed with the idea of running for the governorship, but eventually decided to make an audacious try for the Senate seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.-"When you've beaten...
...fund-raising contract with the Sister Elizabeth Kenny Foundation. Of this $19.5 million, Empire kept $11.5 million for fees, commissions and expenses, turned over only $8,000,000 to the foundation. Boss of Empire: Abraham L. Koolish, presently under indictment in Chicago on a federal charge of mail fraud (raising funds for a phony charitable organization that was supposed to help disabled war veterans but never...