Word: counterfeited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order," cried a shocked questioner, "for members to sit here filling out counterfeit Irish Sweepstake tickets...
...humor and facility engender their allied failings, and the book never bites through to reality. Lacking the sincere emotionalism of Dickens, he yet does not reach the labored truth of Galsworthy, though he has learned from both. Still his lively perceptions create a very readable and satisfying counterfeit of life. Accomplished craftsman, lie has an excellent understanding of the novelist's profession, a less imposing knowledge...
Comrade Sadathieraschvili claimed to know all about the notorious European counterfeit issue of more than $100,000 worth of U. S. $100 Federal Reserve notes, dated 1914 and picturing Benjamin Franklin (TIME, Feb. 3). (Polish banks last week became so alarmed that they refused to accept any U. S. banknotes' in denominations of $100 or larger.) With a wealth of circumstantial detail M. Sadathieraschvili of Georgia accused another Georgian, the Dictator of Soviet Russia, commonly called Josef Stalin, but named by his parents Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
...great Chinese War Lord Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (150,000 men), called the "Christian Marshal," partly because he has distributed thousands of bibles to his troops. He has several times visited Moscow, unquestionably receives a large subsidy (real or counterfeit) from the Soviet Government. In China there has been no outcry against Feng charging him with paying his debts in bad money...
Back from bank to bank the counterfeit trail was followed. It led last week to an order bidding German and Swiss police to arrest on sight one Franz Fischer, prominent a decade ago in the German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they...