Word: counterfeiter
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...Fishkill, N. Y. last month Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. gave his chauffeur a $20 bill to buy groceries, was surprised when the local bank declared it counterfeit, sent it back. In Washington he handed the same bogus bill to his chief clerk, asked for change, got it. Declared Secretary Morgenthau: "The joke's really on the chief clerk...
...Police and Pinkerton detectives announced, more promptly than usual, a customary feature of the Saratoga season: counterfeit bills, mostly...
...hear her audience plainly, see them hazily through the water. "Once," said she, "a guy waved a $1,000 bill in front of the bowl and asked me to stand up. They said he was a big banker but how was I to know the bill wasn't counterfeit? Gary Cooper came back of the bowl to see me one night. My, he was so bashful he got all red. Jim Farley came to see me, too. but he wasn't bashful at all, just nice and fatherly. But most nights it got awfully dull." To pass...
...CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Hard-case Perry Mason steps briskly into his sixth case (the retainer not so fat as formerly), does a bit of quick charity, slyly tricks "The Law," sleeps for once, and emerges triumphant, ready to plunge into the next maelstrom of chicanery and crime...
...special express car of the Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...