Word: fake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...
Five Manhattan knaves and two of their queens quailed before State and Church last week. They had duped 400 Roman Catholic priests and 6,000 laymen out of $2,000,000 in a fake moving picture project. They enhanced their scheme with the names of men high in the hierarchy, in business and in politics. More enormously, they had trafficked with Christ's Mother as the heroine of a cinema show to be called Mary the Virgin...
...employment. Clarence Hatry (stock swindler whose failure precipitated the 1929 stockmarket crash), gave him a $75,000-a-year job as "director." Later Lord Winchester resigned because he "did not agree with [Hatry's] methods of business," but he was nevertheless held responsible for the sale of some fake stocks. To pay these debts, the Marquess speculated, was caught by 1930 bears. Last week he admitted having no income, assets of $5,125, debts...
Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 28--The racket by which the families and friends of students in Harvard College and the Graduate Schools are victims of fake hard luck stories and other schemes for obtaining money falsely is by no means limited to residents of New York City and vicinity, according to information gathered here recently. During the past year, especially, residents of middle western cities have been bothered in much the same fashion as those New Yorkers cited in a recent dispatch from Cambridge...
...California and Nevada. To the hotel come numerous ladies to remain for three months in the Nevada wing to secure divorces from their husbands. Louise Dresser is the wife who manages the hotel, while Lightnin' loafs and in his simple way ingratiates himself with the guests. Promoters of a fake stock company appear on the scene and try to buy the hotel in exchange for stock. "Mother" (the wife) is all in favor of the idea, but Lightnin' distrusts the men and refuses to sign the deed. Mother institutes proceedings for divorce, but just in time the false promoters...