Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest Aim. Rhee's old civilian hierarchy had it tougher. Eight of Rhee's eleven Cabinet ministers were indicted last week on charges of election fraud, and also in jail or under questioning were a Supreme Court judge, two former police directors, two bank governors, three provincial governors, an ex-mayor of Seoul and 21 other high-ranking officials of Rhee's Liberal Party. Former Defense Minister Shin Sung Mo, accused of involvement in political assassinations, fell dead of a stroke in the midst of his interrogation. In the National Assembly, 104 out of 138 Liberal members...
...McLellan chain of stores-from the H. L. Green chain, which was having its troubles. (Green had merged with Maurice Olen's chain of stores in the fall of 1958, but Olen has been charged with overstating his assets by some $4,000,000, now awaits trial for fraud...
...created for that purpose: the "Clean 'Em Out Right Party." The label was designed to fit the Democratic "ins," but may apply also aptly to Addison himself. A federal grand jury in Fort Worth last week returned a 24-count indictment against Addison and six associates for fraud and conspiracy. The gist of the charge, as filed by representatives of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: in the past four years, John Milton Addison (né Milton Patrick Addison) has cleaned up about $1,250,000 from some 500 suckers in 24 states...
...writes random words in the street, repeating a vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag a much-admired fraud named Bogart off to jail for nonsupport, his friend Hat gives an eloquent explanation of why Bogart had left his wife in a distant village and returned to strut about Miguel Street: "To be a man, among we men." Laura, Bogart. and a few more of Port of Spain...
...book opens, a scientific fraud in the form of a faked photo of an experiment is uncovered, and a court of dons quietly strips the seeming culprit of his rank as a university fellow. Hush-hush becomes buzz-buzz as the ex-fellow, Donald Howard, insists that his renowned old scientific mentor, now dead, framed him. To compound this apparent caddishness, Howard is also a fellow traveler and a boorish personality. His only ally is the conscience of a few of his colleagues who fear justice has miscarried...