Word: counterfeited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most U. S. counterfeiters do not pass the money they manufacture. Their profit comes from selling it at bargain prices to "distributors" for an average price of $25 for every $100 of bad bills. The "distributors" sell the counterfeits at varying profit to honest men & women in desperate need of money, and to crooks, to swindlers. Last week in Manhattan secret service agents exposed a ring of counterfeiters who had been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters...
...reticulated ceiling, effulgent with the light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask to counterfeit his humour, and feign a satisfaction which in reality he had no hope of possessing. Indeed, each as he worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that...
...send and receive cablegrams and telegrams transferring millions and hundreds of millions, on paper. Often a telephone call suffices. In their safe, some two feet wide by four high, they keep as a solemn joke two coins, a tiny 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a reputed Spanish sovereign (counterfeit). The important thing is that since the B. I. S. was founded in 1930 it has slowly become "The Central Bank of Central Banks": The World Bank...
...Memphis, Tenn., Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. accepted the gift of a large rug patterned after a $5 Federal Reserve note. The U. S. Treasury Department had ruled it did not constitute a counterfeit...
...rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches so successfully in and about the rogue's chateau that when...