Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor of Boston James M. Curley, 75, pardoned recently by President Truman (he spent five months in jail for mail fraud in 1947), was back in "God's country-Boston," after an extensive tour of Europe. Swinging a blackthorn shillelagh, Democrat Curley announced that he would be a candidate next year for a fifth term as mayor of Boston. About that fraud conviction? "Probably just a case of Mr. Roosevelt wanting to smear...
...fraud?' That is a question which is going to mean more and more to you year by year. At first, it seems agonizing; after that, it becomes familiar and habitual. Much later, it becomes . . . almost hopeful . . . You have to keep on tranquil good terms with this question, not forget it, not let it get into the unconscious . . . The more experience you have with people you're trying to teach, the more evident it will be that it's impossible to teach them . . . The best things that any elderly teacher can ever claim to have said...
...election this fall is still to be won, but Duff is given a good chance of beating plodding Senator Francis Myers, Democratic whip in the 81st Congress. The Democrats have hopefully stored away all the charges of vote buying and fraud hurled by the battling Republicans, and last week they were wondering aloud whether Grundymen would work very hard for a man who has sworn to strip them of all patronage. But Jim Duff had no regrets. Said he: "It was a fight which had to take place, because the party could not go two ways at the same time...
...year-old street jobs and dug up dishonesty and corruption. Where contracts called for excavations, back fill, crushed till, asphalt, oil, gravel, and hot-top asphalt, they found nothing but hot-top asphalt. The repair was only skin deep; beneath the hot-top asphalt lay the old street and fraud...
...following year, King Philippe de Valois of France presented to one of his lords a cloth purporting to be the same shroud. Two bishops forbade veneration of it, presumably because it was a fraud; and in 1390 Pope Clement VII issued a special bull ordering that it should be treated only as "a painted representation of the original, authentic Holy Shroud, whose whereabouts are unknown." Since 1452 the cloth has been the property of the Italian House of Savoy. On special occasions it was exhibited to the faithful, but in the 19th Century, at least, it seems to have appeared...