Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STORY ON SALESMAN FRED WARD OF DENVER IN THE JAN. 21 ISSUE, TIME ERRED IN SAYING THAT THE J. K. MULLEN INVESTMENT co. TUMBLED INTO RECEIVERSHIP...
...quotes a statement by the Union's executive committee which reads: "Have you ever read the "Memoirs of the Harvard Ward Dead" containing pictures and biographies of the unfortunate victims of the last war. Have you ever visited Warren House and read the English A themes of the men who were killed...
Then Reporter Wayne Phillips of the Denver Post began checking the facts of Ward's phenomenal "success story." Phillips discovered that Ward had served nine months in the state penitentiary in 1939 for forgery. And Ward's racing stable, with which he had made a great hit with the local horsy set, was actually owned by Colorado's big-time gambler O. E. ("Smiling Charlie") Stephens, whom Ward had met in the pen. Reporter Phillips turned up another interesting fact: Ward was paying a $500 a month "consultant" fee to Lester Hall, executive vice president...
Locking the Door. Last week a special grand jury indicted Ward on charges of defrauding Denver banks and individuals of $1,353,320. Hall was fired from the bank and also indicted. At the news...
...week's end, Ward was still living on his estate, and still selling. He was marketing a Dry-Gas fire extinguisher. "It's just fine," said Fred Ward, "a wonderful product, greatest thing for gasoline, grease and electrical fires I've ever seen...