Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When George Meyers of Lakewood, N. J. one day last year asked a Philadelphia friend for $25 to use in his upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket...
...World War, general counsel for the Dawes Plan and president of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. This made him an expert at international finance, but left him ignorant of commercial banking (in its puny safe B. I. S. has only two coins, one of them a counterfeit, the other a 25? California gold piece). Chunky Leon Fraser left B. I. S. in 1935 for First National. Two years ago, at 47, he moved up to the presidency...
...Janeiro, a woman was arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit U. S. $5 bill. On the bill was written: "A phoney certificate-payable to any real sucker. If you redeem this certificate you are a magician...
...attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines as extorting money from homosexuals and, more recently, from income tax violators ("the Federal shake...
...many virgins and too many prostitutes are two sides of the same counterfeit coin...