Word: swindler
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...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...
...Goga Cabinet's instructions, the Rumanian National Theatre this week began preparing "a series of revivals of old Rumanian classics, not produced for many years." First to be scheduled is Bloodsucker of the Villages, a Rumanian favorite of half a century ago, all about a heartless Jewish swindler of poor peasants...
...Ignazio Silone. Mme Schwimmer fled her native Hungary in 1920 after political upheavals which ousted her from the national cabinet, was denied U. S. citizenship by the Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as "German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford," by her friends as "the world's most powerful woman." Last week in Manhattan, after acknowledging her award with a speech proposing a World Federation of Nations, she lamented that the prize money would cancel only her "most pressing" debts...
...first serious mistake was to acquire the services of a notorious swindler named Parker H. French, whom he sent to San Francisco to recruit more men, to dicker with Vanderbilt's agents for a loan. When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote...