Word: counterfeited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received or paid out cash when, in 1933, he was elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates sincerely deplored his announcement last month that he would resign...
Rumba (Paramount). Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket. She goes to his dressing room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner...
...Actually it has a small safe in which the directors keep, as a solemn joke, two coins: a 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a Spanish sovereign (counterfeit...
Tenafiy, N. J., Nov. 21--Federal agents walked into a ram-shackle artist's home today, seized $75,000 in counterfeit currency, machinery and press and arrested two men and a woman...
...some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...