Word: swindler
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...result of shady stock manipulation. So the first shock to ambitious Bengt's resolution came when he learned that his mother had been unlawfully selling old de Grévy's possessions, that his other heirs might prosecute. Nevertheless that glimpse of his mother as a swindler was nothing to the awakening he was to experience in the next few days...
Died. Albert Dalimier, 61, oldtime French politician, member of twelve French Cabinets; after a long illness; in Paris. In 1932, while Minister of Labor, he dispatched circular letters recommending investment in the unsound Bayonne municipal pawnshop bonds offered by arch-Swindler Alexandre Stavisky. He resigned the day Stavisky's body was found, was ousted from the Radical Socialist Party during the scandal that followed...
...Serge Alexandre. If he now & then asked some of the defendants to perform individual crooked acts, and if some of the defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that as individuals they had had no knowledge of the vast ramifications of Swindler Stavisky's crockeries but had considered him a man of substance. Stavisky was, they submitted, a "Financial Napoleon," the magnitude of whose coups and victories on the Bourse erased his peccadillos from the minds of Cabinet Ministers and the Surete Generate, who "never bothered Sacha, although they knew...
...Monstrous! Unendurable!" rose the Corsican cry of Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, defender of the late great Swindler Alexandre Stavisky's widow Arlette (TIME, Mar. 12, 1934 et seq.). "We are granted not even a fit place to sit down. Scandalous! Outrageous...
...Palace. Twenty months ago two French Cabinets were unseated in succession by the Stavisky Scandal; the riots in the Place de la Concorde on Feb. 6, 1934 were the bloodiest in 63 years; and the present trial of Stavisky accomplices bristles with political dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested, some sympathy has always attached to the Great Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many a Frenchman...