Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government must rest upon the confidence of its people. High administrative offices must be en trusted with responsibility and on their good faith, proven by the test of time, the people must rest." The issue which called forth this dictum concerned the above-named Bureau of Internal Revenue. Hot Greek fire has been aimed at it, all during the present session of Congress, be cause of the millions of dollars it was re funding to income-tax payers, private and corporate. Senator McKellar had finally introduced a bill which would automatically put all refunds under the immediate control...
...place. As your "Blue Train" from Paris halts momentarily at Monte Carlo and then chuffs on to Menton, the prettiest station through which it speeds, the one with the neatest garden and the fairest palms, is Roquebrune. In the great house just visible through dense foliage lived ''The Greek," Europe's "Prince of Gamblers," and there he died?rich...
...lost to Athanase Vagliano and his colleagues of the famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano...
Awful legends naturally enshrouded "The Greek." His ancestors are said to have been Byzantine pirates, but Athanase Vagliano would admit to no more than that he was born in Athens "probably...
...sailor, outsmarted many another, and presently owned his own wallowing, chugging tramp steamer. His escalator to Monte Carlo is darkly whispered to have been the white slaving slums of Marseilles. If that trail exists it has been well covered, nay, completely effaced. The smart world will remember "The Greek" solely in his sleek role of banker at Deauville or Cannes...