Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among them were Tucker's dealings with one Harold A. Karsten, formerly known as A. H. Karatz, a fellow promoter of the Tucker Car Corp. Tucker had attempted to conceal the Karsten connection, said SEC, because of Karsten's "criminal record."* Karsten introduced Tucker to Floyd D. Cerf Co., Inc., a Chicago underwriting firm, and later helped him negotiate his lease for the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant from the War Assets Administration...
...hard for Tucker to keep his promise. SEC refused to let Tucker sell $20,000,000 in common stock to finance his car. Said SEC: Tucker's stock-registration statement contained incomplete and false statements. False entries, said SEC, had been made in Tucker Corp. books to conceal payments of cash and promises of stock options to promoters. Tucker said that he could explain everything. This week SEC began a hearing...
Last week, using India (see below) as as object lesson, Radio Moscow demonstrated how it's done. Said one aerial pundit: "American monopolists . . . conceal . . . far-reaching plans for ousting British capital [and] opening the way to India's enslavement. . . ." Said Evgeny Zhukov: Indian leaders feared U.S. "encroachment" and chose continuing ties with Britain as "the lesser of two evils...
...background music had leaped to the front of the Hit Parade. Mam'selle jumped from 25th to first place on sheet music best-seller lists in ten weeks. Said Whistler Goulding proudly: "When you whistle you're naked. You can't play covering chords to conceal the fact that you haven't got a good tune...
...Vixens has a polish that almost absolves it; literary standards are irrelevant to its high sheen and jet propulsion. What gives The Vixens special interest is the fact that its author is the first Negro to make an unqualified success in the slick-writing field. The publishers neither conceal nor exploit this fact: their publicity refers to 31-year-old Frank Yerby as a man who taught English at Florida A. & M. College and Southern University, La., leaves it up to the reader to know that they are Negro colleges...