Word: punchboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punchboard Padres. An indictment charging an arm-long list of felonies accused the fake clergy of collecting money under false pretenses. In ten years of canvassing Manhattan for a non-existent shelter, nursery, and boys' camp, said the District Attorney, they had collected more than half a million dollars...
...forth by airplane two or three times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside, Calif. He eggs his salesmen on with contests in which they win chances on a punchboard (two for selling a De Soto, one for a Plymouth) containing $35,000 in prizes...