Word: counterfeiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the 19th Century. Later still, the golden iridescences of Tiffany glass, created by the late Louis Comfort Tiffany (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), had a transitory popularity. Although collectors crow over early American glass, much now available cannot be definitely authenticated, much more is counterfeit...
...Hohokus, N. J., when two strangers drove into his filling station and proffered two half-dollars for gasoline, Ben Weinstein cried, "Phony." gave chase in his automobile, forced the strangers to wreck their car against a bridge. In the wrecked car police found 500 counterfeit half dollars...
...letter is not correct, the note is counterfeit. But even if it is, the bill may still be counterfeit...