Word: swindleress
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...time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed her last week with a sort of awe "La Grande Catherine de Finance...
Simply and factually told the story of Swindleress Hanau is that of a clever woman who sold dull people worthless stock by promising them dividends of from 15 to 80 per cent. She went into bankruptcy, last week, with assets of 22,000 francs ($858) and known liabilities of 219,000,000 ($8,541,000); but even a hasty investigation showed that she had probably mulcted widows, small town businessmen and country priests of not less than half a billion francs ($19,500,000). This stupendous swindle was carried on from Paris through branch offices in almost every provincial city...
...American Methods!" Such was the glamorous slogan wherewith Swindleress Hanau dazzled and duped tight-fisted rural Frenchmen and took away their francs...
...recommended. The pose of "American Methods" was played up to the limit in La Gazette, which from the first vigorously championed the Kellogg Pact Renouncing War (TIME, July 30) a document none too popular in France. During the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short feature articles for her paper by some of the leading journalists of Europe. Recently U. S. papers widely reprinted from La Gazette an elaborate exposé of a Communist plan to seize Paris. So craftily...
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