Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel. "I always made it a practice to spend on Mabel what I got from Jane . . . Don't forget that all these women were trying to take...
Last month, Western officials cautiously started to let some money pour into West Germany's economic pool. The Bank Deutscher Länder relaxed credit restrictions by lowering the rediscount rate for its member banks. West Germany's economic boss, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, announced an 8½-billion-mark investment program for the coming fiscal year...
...first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
Along Taipei's broad, palm-shaded streets, sleek automobiles rushed rich mainland occupants to recently acquired business and government offices. Well-groomed Chinese women cluttered restaurants and shops, jammed sidewalk money-exchange booths, displaying rolls of crisp U.S. dollar notes. Thousands of Chinese soldiers, with the defeat of Shanghai just behind them, camped in the cavernous railroad station or roamed the streets. Civilians and soldiers (1,500,000 in number) were refugees from the communism now flooding south across China. They were also a troublesome burden to a people who wanted their island home for themselves...
...stop. By June 1944, a rounded mountain 450 feet high had risen quietly. Upbraided by Fukaba's villagers for his bad advice, the postmaster bought their ruined fields for 28,000 yen. "With the money I paid them, and their earthquake insurance and the extra jobs made by the disturbance," he says, they are ' funka narikin" (volcanic new-rich...