Word: counterfeited
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...idea sounded good: make counterfeit defense stamps of the two-bit variety, turn them in for cash instead of for war bonds. But underworld assistance was needed to market them, and even gangsters can be patriots. Two weeks after the first batch of $52,500 worth of bogus stamps were off the presses, the Secret Service, on a underworld tip, had each counterfeiter under surveillance...
Inspector. In Louisville, Gordon Jones was sent to the penitentiary for posing as a Federal agent, taking $590 from a bank. He did it by walking in, telling the bank cashier that he wanted to take the money away to see if it was counterfeit...
...would come bouncing into bedrooms, shouting Merry Christmas and itching to dive at the filled-up stockings, the boxes under the trees. Soon whole families, in bathrobes and dressing gowns, would be engulfed by billows of wrapping paper, the whir of toy trains, the squeals of genuine or counterfeit surprise...
...Apoplectic because Congress had not begun to act until the President gave them a signal, Columnist Westbrook Pegler sputtered: "A sorry counterfeit of a legislative body. . . . You have impaired and damn near destroyed your own prestige and with it the American form of Government...
Detectives said $6,000 worth of Layman's counterfeit tickets had been cashed at New York and Maryland tracks as practice for a cleanup in Florida this winter. Said disgusted "Inventor" Layman: "There goes our million bucks...