Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apoplectic because Congress had not begun to act until the President gave them a signal, Columnist Westbrook Pegler sputtered: "A sorry counterfeit of a legislative body. . . . You have impaired and damn near destroyed your own prestige and with it the American form of Government...
Detectives said $6,000 worth of Layman's counterfeit tickets had been cashed at New York and Maryland tracks as practice for a cleanup in Florida this winter. Said disgusted "Inventor" Layman: "There goes our million bucks...
...team let 220 of them go to the ordinary student buyers and the CRIMSON, calmed down. One undergraduate paid $25 for the first place in the line to buy tickets at the H.A.A. They had troubles in those days, too, with scalpers, and the Springfield police caught counterfeit tickets at the gates...
...cease his operations. He spent millions of English pounds (reportedly counterfeit) softening up Iraqi officers. He met some of them in Damascus last winter, and by April had evolved a thoroughly pro-Nazi native organization in the Iraqi Army...
...police nor FBI, but the 200 operatives of the little Secret Service, whose other job is guarding the President & family, hunt counterfeiters in the U. S. Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational campaign directed by hamhanded, sharp-nosed Frank John Wilson, S. S. Chief, has shown thousands of merchants how to distinguish the uneven engraving and threadless paper of counterfeit bills. An 18-minute movie named "Dan gerous Dollars" produced by the S. S., also telecast and made into a Paramount short...