Word: swindler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When big-time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul...
...landed on some sensitive toes: descendants of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps (whose wives and children were not accounted for in Suez), Jesse James, admirers of Alexander Graham Bell. Last month cinemaddicts who saw Producer Zanuck's Rose of Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose...
...Angeles air-conditioning firm. Last week he filed suit against Producer Zanuck, Actor Power, et aL, seeking an injunction against further showings of Rose of Washington Square, $250,000 damages. Mr. Arndt Stein huffed .hat Actor Power portrayed him not only as a coward, weakling and swindler, but as a faithless husband to boot. If Nicky gets his nick, it will be the deepest cut in Hollywood's hide since Russian Princess [rina Alexandrovna Youssoupov, whose Brother helped murder Rasputin, got an estimated $750,000 from M-G-M because a "Princess Natasha" was shown being assaulted...
...January 1930, a swindler named Clarence Charles Hatry stood at the bar of London's Old Bailey, heard himself convicted of "one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country." The collapse of Promoter Hatry's $10,000,000 forged bond bubble in September 1929 had sapped confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary...
...morning in March 1932, a swindler named Ivar Kreuger lay on his bed in a Paris apartment, put a bullet through his heart. Kreuger & Toll's subsequent collapse sapped confidence in financial wizardry, helped to precipitate Roosevelt reforms. Last week Kreuger & Toll's U.S. ,estate paid its final dividend to claim-holders, bringing its total payments to $2,743,582. With payments by the Swedish estate, the burnt-up Match King's burnt-up creditors have so far collected a scant $22.000,000 out of original claims...