Word: swindler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Promoter Bob, his hair thinner but his personality still as bland as ever, was in new trouble. Again he went on trial in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney Leo Fennelly, who has helped run down many a noted swindler (including Banker Joseph Harriman), Promoter Bob had sunk so low he had taken to selling gold bricks. In 1932 he acquired Bankers Service Co., which was founded in 1908 to solicit accounts for savings banks and which he turned to investment counseling. Its chief counsel, according to the charge...
When investigators closed in, one of Swindler Bob's front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...
...School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
...their profession or trade: "What were you?" Answer: "I was a doctor." Reply of catechist: "No, you were a quack and thief." The same question and answer were repeated until the prisoner answers: "I was a quack and thief." A merchant was compelled to reply: "I was a swindler." and a hand worker to reply: "I was a dumb Jew without brains enough to cheat Germans...
...Ossietsky was visited by a former German Army officer, Dr. Kurt Wannow, who palmed himself off as a lawyer, was given by the Nobel Pacifist a power of attorney which enabled him to collect the $40,000 from Oslo. About $32,000 was at one time placed by swindler Dr. Wannow in investments held partly in the name of Fräulein Lenze in hopes of making it more difficult for Sanatorium Inmate Ossietsky to recover anything. His physician, who has the French name of Dosquette, lent money to pay lawyers who got after Wannow & Lenze. By last week Ossietsky...