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...Russians last week wailed like so many wronged Rhine nymphs. The Central State Pawnshop of the Soviet Purchasing Commission had bought gold bullion in Berlin-50 million marks' worth of nice, shiny gold for the depleted Soviet treasury. Last week, a frantic message came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...
Demonstration. In Boise, Idaho, Don Williams asked to see a pistol in a pawnshop window, asked for some shells, calmly loaded it, held up the place, made off with...
...took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
Within a fortnight French taxpayers knew that, with the connivance of Government officials, they had been bilked of some $18,000,000 in pawnshop bonds. Soon some 50 Parisians were killed rioting against "the swindlers and assassins in the Chamber of Deputies." Half a dozen bureaucrats fled, or, like Stavisky, were "found dead." Two French Cabinets crashed. Whatever else he may have done, Stavisky revealed France's inward rottenness to the watchful eye of Hitler...
...second Mitsui enterprise was a pawnshop. Later, a money-changing office grew into the great banking system which financed and controlled the Mitsui merchandising, manufacturing and shipping empire. In 1937 the private wealth of the eleven Mitsui family heads was estimated at 1,635,000,000 yen ($450 million...