Word: counterfeited
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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...
Dramatically, elegant Norman Birkett, counsel for the defense, pleaded mercy for his clients. His cultivated voice tremulous with emotion, Barrister Birkett told how the rascally Gialdini (now in Italy) had evolved the entire scheme of the counterfeit bonds...
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...
...Month Club" recess before it became a "Commission-a-Minute Club." The Hoover "Naval Yardstick" was brought forth in an elaborate box which proved to be empty, though a gridironer insisted it contained "the same yardstick that was used to place agriculture on a parity with manufacturing." A counterfeit Harry Ford Sinclair raced through the ballroom brandishing a revolver in pursuit of the man who said you could not put 100 million dollars in jail. The President's efforts to make Washington a model dry city were parodied with "The Song of Firewatha in the Land of Many...