Word: swindler
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With Conway came others involuntarily--a palcontologist, a consumptive female, a rough public utilities swindler, and Conway's weak worldly brother. All except the last are won over to the Utopia. In the wink of an eye the blonde seems to lose her consumption and her hard shell; similarly, the other two relax into a happy existence. Conway himself sees a dream come true...
...Trotskyists do not have reserves in the Soviet Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler and the leader of a horde of writing bandits who live only by slandering the working class and the Soviet Union...
Another case was that of a swindler, Neil, who succeded in getting his jailer to have a few drinks while Neil was being taken east, got him then to go to a burlesque show, after which the evening wound up by Neil putting the warden to bed. The convict was next heard of when he posed as a movie actor and made a personal appearance in New Orleans...
...were the faces of several proud Manhattan bankers last week when they were exposed in Federal Court not for evil but for folly. In Judge William Bondy's courtroom, Michael ("Mike") Pecoraro, 39, a confessed swindler with at least 19 aliases, received an 18-month penitentiary sentence for having obtained $15,563 in 19 different loans from the National City Bank and Manufacturers Trust Company on 19 pieces of real estate...
Sued for Divorce. Charles Ponzi, 54, celebrated Boston swindler, now a Roman tourist guide; by Mrs. Rose Ponzi whom he married in 1918; in Cambridge, Mass. Grounds: he had served "more than five years" (1922-34) in prison. Explained she: "When he was down . . . I stuck...