Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose mendacity reaches its highest point in connection with investigations of the manufacture and sale of munitions...
Early in the investigation, a Driggs armament salesman brought the name of George V into the limelight by insisting that His Britannic Majesty had intervened personally in an attempt to swing a sale of anti-aircraft guns to Poland from Driggs to Vickers. Even before Britain had recovered from its shocked horror at this statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez...
...half years ago to send this money to Britain, but kept collecting half of it to pay government expenses. Free State farmers, however, far from grateful for having their payments halved, refused to see why they should pay even that half. Last week's cattle sale was de Valera's way of getting...
...Senator named James A. O'Gorman. The kindly, white-bearded old gentleman spent a quarter hour before a grand jury, trying to stall off an indictment of the executive committee of defunct New York Title & Mortgage Co. for allegedly issuing false and deceptive statements in connection with the sale of guaranteed mortgages. Now 74, a trustee of New York University, Mr. O'Gorman emerged from the grand jury chamber with tears in his eyes. A little later he and ten of his fellow directors were formally charged with a misdemeanor on two counts...
Typical of the frauds alleged was an item listed among New York Title's assets at the end of 1932-$30,000,000 of mortgages "available for sale." Fact was said the prosecution, $12,000,000 of these mortgages were pledged for an RFC loan, and others "in amount unknown to the grand jurors" were in default as to taxes, hence not available for sale...