Word: pretexting
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...Legion's "Colonel" Harvey Davis decided on hanging. Poole was lured to the meeting on the pretext that he was needed for a sandlot baseball team. The men piled into a string of automobiles with their victim, started out of town. At a spot near Dearborn, after a round of drinks, one Denton Dean discovered that there was no rope handy, abruptly shot five slugs into Charles Poole...
...believe that Mrs. Ames (Madeleine Carroll) shot and killed her rich husband. An assistant district attorney (George Brent) is so convinced of it that he denounces the jury, gets jailed for contempt of court. Mrs. Ames's dowager mother-in-law (Beulah Bondi) makes the murder a pretext for taking possession of Mrs. Ames's small son. Acting from thoroughly scrambled motives, the assistant district attorney performs some sleuthing while the not particularly bright young widow makes a mess of acting as her own counsel in a court battle...
...foundation and the essential part of Belgium's international status. Germany's action in tearing it up strikes Belgium more gravely and severely than any other country. Yet Belgium has adhered firmly to her part in this pact. The German memorandum takes as a pretext a pretended violation in the Franco-Soviet pact, but Belgium had no part in nor connection with the Franco-Soviet negotiation. For us it has no consequences, for we are neither directly nor indirectly concerned. We can say without fear of contradiction that we have kept the Locarno Treaty not only in letter...
...Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket...
...back the League with an organized and rational machinery of Sanctions. "In 1924 the efforts of Herriot were foiled by the British and so eight years later were my own," declared André Tardieu. "During the Manchurian troubles Sir John Simon, as British Foreign Secretary, declared that under no pretext would His Majesty's Government permit their country to be drawn into a conflict...