Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Mexican brush, the Señor Henry Wallace saw signs of the event for which he had made his first crossing of the Rio Grande. Painted on the rock cuts near Tamazunchale (an old Huasteca Indian name pronounced by gringos Thomas & Charlie) were huge letters: TODO MEXICO CON AVILA CAMACHO -All Mexico with Avila Camacho...
Arms to the South. Until last year the equipment of most of these countries con sisted of old U. S. Remingtons and ancient German Mausers for infantry, carbines and lances for cavalry, 1895 Krupp field-artillery pieces. Last year 19 of the 20 Latin-American republics spent an average of 25% of all Government expenditures on defense. Latin America maintains a peacetime strength of about 350,000 men. War strength is calculated at 1,800,000. With a total population of 125,000,000, Latin America can muster a potential man power of 12,000,000. Fifteen...
...College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...
...last week was 25-year-old Frank Ellis, serving three years for a little shooting scrape. He had ridden broncs at Cheyenne, Pendleton and the great Broadway roundup in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
...Senators, dizzied by mental arithmetic and preparing to take a final vote, strode Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Lawrence Sullivan. He told the Senators that the Treasury would have to disown their bill, suggested they start all over again. Sore, the Senators sent for Henry Morgenthau, who con firmed his assistant's verdict. Sorer, the Senators defiantly reported their version anyhow...