Word: ponzis
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...dapper little man with the straw hat, the walking stick and the boutonniere emerged from Boston's State House, a cheer went up for "the greatest Italian of them all." Charles ("Get-Rich-Quick") Ponzi shrugged off the compliment. "No," he admitted, "Columbus and Marconi were greater. Columbus discovered America, Marconi discovered the wireless." Hysterical voice from the crowd: "But you discovered money...
...Janeiro, Charles ("Get Rich Quick") Ponzi, 70, multimillion-dollar swindler of 28 years ago (who has been tutoring languages for a living), lay half-paralyzed in a hospital charity ward. Of the U.S. he said: "I hated to leave. I loved that country...
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...