Word: swindlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
...last week his third season as designer-proprietor-manager of the Overlook Theatre, at Pocantico Hills, N. Y.* Built on his father's estate, the theatre is architecturally arresting, mechanically capable of showing both vaudeville and cinema to an audience of 66. The vaudeville includes magic ("Professor Alonzo, Swindler") and skits ("The Man Who Was Legally Right''). The performers are young friends of Son Collier; they give fictitious names in the programs. Said Son Collier: "I don't act unless I have to. I have enough to do." After locking the door of his theatre...
Curious is the fact that U. S. and British news organs, when libeling or exposing, make incessant use of such phrases as "alleged," "charged," "understood." Legally it is quite as libelous to pussyfoot, "John Doe is an alleged swindler," as to boldly print, "John Doe is a swindler." Psychological explanation: writers and editors feel safer when they pussyfoot, as do ostriches with heads in sand...
John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...
...little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies he was lured successively by Vermont, Alaska, the Straits of Magellan, Labrador, the Alps, Tierra del Fuego, Newfoundland. In one place he was arrested for assaulting a swindler. In Newfoundland, the good fisherfolk, seeing him staring out to sea in all kinds of bad weather, concluded he was a German spy signaling to submarines. "Oh, lots of things have happened to me. It's great stuff. I'll have to do something with it some day," laughs...