Word: ponzis
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...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...
...after all, purely as a business matter, every man who graduates owes the University about one thousand dollars, since his instruction costs roughly five hundred dollars a year, of which his tuition pays half. It does not require a Ponzi to perceive that a university is not a paying proposition as far as cash dividends are concerned. It is also obvious that unless some steady and substantial sources of revenue are constantly being tapped to supply the annual deficit, "business as usual" must, sooner or later become impossible...
...motion wheel, capitalized at a million pounds. Contemporaneously in France, Law's expansive scheme for exploiting the Mississippi. Valley collapsed, sweeping French aristocracy into bankruptcy. In more recent times there have been as many notorious, if not as comprehensive, wildcat projects culminating in "520 per cent Miller" and "Miracle Ponzi...
...newspaper publicity, the Bureau plans to reach the people through banks, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, labor organizations, and large mercantile institutions. By thus plugging thus plugging the hole in the dyke, the Bureau will divert millions of dollars yearly from the wildcat whirlpool and gradually drive the "Ponzi" specie of wizard from finance...
...President," he continued in talking of the "most discussed and interesting problem of the campaign-the League," "we all should help his election. But we must have more proof that it would than his say-so, though there are many who will take that just as many took Ponzi's word...