Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground on TV and, as such, ought to be encouraged. Unfortunately, in the case of The Mystery of Thirteen, it proved cold, cold ground. David Shaw's version of Robert Graves' They Hanged My Saintly Billy recounted the actual career of an English rogue, gambler and forger named Dr. William Palmer, who was hanged in 1856 for what was rumored as his thirteenth murder by poison. Graves argued that Palmer was the victim of circumstantial evidence. Intentionally or not, the TV version left no doubt of his guilt, and it tried to mitigate Palmer's villainy with...
Sentenced to five years in the Ohio State Penitentiary, Will landed once more on his feet. He got a comfortable job in the hospital and became a valued friend of the prison doctor. With five other prisoners (two train robbers, three embezzlers and a forger) he founded the "Recluse Club," which met on Sundays in an unused prison office and ate lavish dinners, complete with silverware, napkins and flowers...
...name. Being an uncommon crook, Kreuger did not crumble on Black Thursday. Indeed, he never defaulted on a dividend; but he was in the trap of paying dividends out of capital. He gambled millions in the market himself, and lost. Outwardly calm but inwardly frantic, he became the master forger of the age when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast to be saved by bogus...
...graduate of Courtois' fake-factory, a celebrated forger named Vrain-Lucas, later went into business for himself, and managed to convince some of France's finest scholars of the authenticity of hasty notes from Cleopatra to Caesar, Alexander to Aristotle and Lazarus to St. Peter, despite the fact that they were written in Old French...
...Africa from 1906 to 1915; then in the struggle against the British which lasted until independence in 1947; and finally, until his assassination in 1948, in an heroic and saintly attempt to bring peace out of the bloody Hindu-Muslim riots over the partition of free India. As the forger of this non-violent sword, Gandhi offers important lessons to those in this country who now are continuing his struggle...