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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailents in the Day's News | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Carnegie's Good Money | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

Following his company's instructions to be on the lookout for counterfeit gold bills or bills of large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 4U-13-41 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Manhattan and Binghamton, N. Y. last week the Government quietly collared ten people who, it charged, had set out to plaster the country with $2,000,000 worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Undercover Men | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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