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...decree there was only one catch. Every peasant, in order to retain his status, must be "honorable"- the requisite degree of honor being defined as ''honorable enough to pay his debts if he is able to do so after proper administration of his land." Peasants who flagrantly cheat their creditors will suffer a peculiar penalty: the cheater's estate will pass while he is yet living to his heir. If the heir turns out to be a cheat, his heir gets the estate, and so on until an "honorable peasant" is found to hold the homestead...
Garr Fallson headed west for Prairie City and his career. He was making good money there, booming worthless real estate and running a crooked lottery until his partners, whom he had tried to cheat, exposed him. He moved on, established himself in Mineral City, and bought a moribund newspaper, The Chronicle. Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want...
Some customers are always trying to cheat the insurance companies, complained delegates to the American Life Convention in Chicago last week. Some cheat by committing suicide, some by hiding disabilities from which they soon die. Insurance company doctors by keeping alert may detect many a disease-hiding applicant. As for suicides, which have steadily increased throughout the world, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman who has been studying the statistics for Prudential Insurance Co. last week suggested more preventive organizations like the National Save-a-Life League and Vienna's Advisory Centre for Those Weary of Life (TIME, Dec. 7, 1931; June...
...Steuer and U. S. Attorney Medalie tell the jury the same story. But according to Lawyer Steuer, the onetime boss of National City Bank is a man who was "inspired in every act . . . only by the highest, noblest motives." And, according to Lawyer Medalie, he is a fraud, a cheat, a sanctimonious swindler...
...behind extended exploration. In this case over a year was spent in careful planning and equipment was sent to the cast from London six months ahead. Personnel is another perplexing problem and Mr. Coolidge deserves praise for handling pugnacious gun-bearors and sly Laotian hunters who tried to cheat him by selling him pheasants they had shot while in his employ. This book should be of local interest not only because its authors are both Harvard men but because Mr. Coolidge's zoological training resulted in part from his activities on the Harvard Liberian Expedition...