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Word: counterfeits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austria, under a foreign-supported and schismatic dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators Dissected | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...bought a pair of shoes for 16 shillings, giving a one-pound note. The shoemaker got change from a butcher, gave the customer the shoes and four shillings change. Finding the note was counterfeit, the butcher forced the shoemaker to give him a genuine note. How much did the shoemaker lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 9, 1935 | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...Police and Pinkerton detectives announced, more promptly than usual, a customary feature of the Saratoga season: counterfeit bills, mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Disturbance for Sparrows | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent Mysteries: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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