Word: shadiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny California, some of the world's sharpest auto salesmen provide a deal of shade. Last week the shadiest of them all was popped into the cooler. Convicted on charges of conspiracy, grand theft and forgery, Auto Dealer Henry J. Caruso-billed as "the greatest" in his radio and TV singing commercials-was packed off to jail for a year, fined $10,000, and enjoined for the next ten years from entering any business in which he would be selling to the public. After Caruso, wary Californians agreed, the public needed a ten-year respite...
...police, archivists and other scholars, and set out in search of further knowledge of Genealogist Courtois. Last week, in the silent, august chamber of L'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Scholar Bautier announced his findings: Henri Courtois, a onetime notary's clerk and one of the shadiest characters of the 19th century, had done a land-office business in the faking of ancient documents,*exacting a fee of 40,000 gold francs ($10,000) apiece for his services. All 250 of the documents which he had produced for submission to King Louis Philippe were forgeries...
...King Committee (House), under California's Cecil King, is the scourge of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Next month it will lash away some more, at hearings in San Francisco, where some of the BIR's shadiest shenanigans have gone...