Word: ponzi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pandemonium of their offices and the grim, still Prison St. Lazare. Caged there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed her last week...
Pangalo's reliance on the old principle of chance is not without shrewdness. Even in America, state lotteries were the most popular of taxation until a puritanic court declared them illegal. Indeed, the Greek premier's clipping coup d'etat bids fair to place him in the Ponzi class of promoters...
Recently, the editors of The Lampoon (humorous publication at Harvard University) printed a picture of a temple with a label: "Temple of Business." They inscribed upon a prominent portion of its architecture the names Ponzi, Arnstein, Shylock, Doheny...
...Doheny in the issue of the Lampoon out today would seem to show that even Lampy--the champion of the liberal arts--still has an eye to business. It seems that in the recent Business number of the Lampoon Doheny's name was linked with those of Shylock and Ponzi. Lampy, ever shrewd, evidently felt it worth while to apologize only to Mr. Doheny, remembering that Ponzi is at present a guest of the state and that Shylock never existed. Mr. Doheny, unaccustomed as he is to public notice, is expected to appreciate Lampy's expression of "regret that publicity...
...same train and went to Atlanta in his company-or in as much of it as the marshals would permit. Thus, for the time being, ends the career of a man unique for his combination of the fervor of an African evangelist and the financial talents of a Ponzi...