Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...received a copy of a medical questionnaire on hypnosis. Psychiatrist Dallis considered his answers carefully, for hypnosis, long the refuge of quacks and magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis, and why only qualified physicians should make...
...Found More Skeleton." The scheme that finally got Con Man Moore was his "Lost Wheelbarrow Mine." To help promote it, in 1936, he used one of the most spectacular stunts in the long history of mine frauds. He got an unsuspecting partner to tell the story to millions of prospects all at once on the nationwide radio program, We the People...
...Word of It. Finally, in 1943 the Securities & Exchange Commission caught up with Moore, had him indicted on 40 counts of fraud. But he slipped away to Canada and continued plying his trade there. This year British Columbia officials informed the SEC that they had found the old (65) con man and were quizzing him about some Canadian stock promotions. Moore startled SEC men by agreeing to return to the U.S. voluntarily to face the old fraud charges...
...prove her point the phone rang..."Certainly, Mrs. Williamson, I remember you, yes, I think we con get someone to take your baby this week. Have a good time." Seeing I was slightly bewildered, she explained, "She's a darling, finally taking a vacation, wants another Harvard wife to take care of her baby; but that kind of a thing is just part...
Earl Wilson, a leading proponent of the female figure, writes a syndicated column on night-life on and off Broadway. It is not known whether he will take the pro or con on the American Girl...