Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million dollars in jail. The President's efforts to make Washington a model dry city were parodied with "The Song of Firewatha in the Land of Many...
...officers, it looked like a hopeless case. Capt. Ziegenbein assembled 50 stewards whom the officers did know by sight, formed a ''vigilance committee." Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief in a steward's uniform, wearing a counterfeit steward's badge. Officials suspected Prisoner Barklage of a part in the $100,000 theft last year from mail bags on the Leviathan...
...marry a Tennessee hill girl, one must first have a "homeplace." The $50 a 'legger gave Fayre Jones to keep quiet about dynamiting the Howard house would have sufficed to let him marry Bess Howard, only the money proved counterfeit. What could Jones do but return it? Bess moved to town, began going to "play-parties." Fayre remonstrated but could do nothing until a man to whom Jones turned out to be a brother on the left side, died, leaving a "homeplace." Then Fayre moved in with Bess for his "wife-woman." She gladly planned, by bringing along "child...
...bottom, searched through jumbled cans, tires, bottles. Diver Blair is a good searcher. He it was who recovered from the muddy Jackson Park Lagoon the typewriter which helped incriminate Murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. When he emerged last week, he brought up two heavy objects. They were counterfeit seals of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
...Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fined Standard $29,240,000, largest fine in history. Said Judge Landis: "You wound society more deeply than those who counterfeit the coin." Even had Standard paid the fine, it would have been a mere drop out of the Standard bucket. In 1911 the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Standard to "resolve into its original units, and restore free competition in the oil industry." Author Winkler suspects and says that Standard still functions as a unit...