Word: normano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that Dr. Joao Frederico Normano, visiting lecturer on economics for two years and an associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America, is none other than Isaac Lewin, enterprising Berlin banker who in 1928 cleaned up a tidy sum by the simple expedient of forging bills of exchange and selling them to foreign banks at a discount...
Upon being questioned yesterday afternoon, the Department of Economics stated that "Economics 30", which has been given during the first half year by J. F. Normano, visiting lecturer from South America, who has been recently exposed as Dr. Isaak Lewin, German swindler, who has baffled the most efficient brains of the Berlin secret police for three years, would not be given in the second half year...
...real loss is felt by certain graduate students, since Normano, or Lewin, was an authority on the economic problems of Latin America. However, no mid-year exams will be given in this course...
...Department denied the rumor that another lecturer would replace Normano, who has been associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America...
...Normano spent yesterday studying quietly in his cell and is apparently oblivious to what is going on around him, according to the guard in charge. Police were in doubt whether Normano's office in the College Library would be searched for counterfeiting materials...