Word: ponzi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This gentleman has dazzled Massachusetts with his virtuosity ever since the days of Charles Ponzi, the sleight-of-hand banker whose blow-up rocked Boston 18 years ago. Mr. McMasters was Mr. Ponzi's pressagent.* When the blow-up came, the Boston Post scooped the story. Its informant: Pressagent McMasters...
...After serving three and a half years in Federal prison and seven years in Massachusetts State Prison, Ponzi was deported in 1934, has been living in Rome ever since...
...experience of a Freshman student in the goal post melee that followed the Dartmouth game provides a ready answer to those who have not yet thought of something that will relieve them of their capital as quickly as Mr. Ponzi's schemes of a decade or so ago. The Yardling, more fortunate than many others, managed to obtain the arrest of a well known professional pickpocket, who was making the most of the opportunity afforded by the crush around the goals to lighten the load in students' pockets...
...Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world's "pocket billiard" (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934) Andrew Ponzi 125-to-107 in the final playoff of a four-way tie after a 66-game round robin; in Manhattan...
...wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville. He had been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted by the police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some $100,000 to start his financial sheet. Like Boston's Charles Ponzi, he promised huge returns on funds entrusted to him for reinvestment, made enough "dividend" payments from principal to reassure his victims, who then hurried to pile in more & more. But none of these outrageous facts was known to the Observer's subscribers until last week...