Word: swindler
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Scarcely had Gazeta Polska printed this comment on the deceit urged by Helmsman Dimitroff than the Soviet Government gave Jan Otmar Berson 72 hours in which to get out of Russia. Thundered the official Soviet newsorgan Pravda: "When some swindler takes advantage of Soviet hospitality and, despite warnings, dares to insult repeatedly and insolently the dignity of the Soviet people, then he is shown the gate...
Died. Mme Marthe Hanau, 49, French arch-swindler; of pneumonia following a suicide attempt (poison); in a Paris prison hospital after serving most of a three-year term for fraud. Through her newspaper, Gazette du Franc, she gave financial "tips" to small investors who lost more than $4,000,000 when her pyramid of holding companies collapsed in December 1928 in the greatest scandal France had known since...
...Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge in 1944, and the shriveled 83-year-old form of the Acid Drop lay in its grave. Indomitable to the last...
...made itself a party to this story. From the uncomfortable little flat where the nurse had been keeping them on her own savings, the children were driven to a hospital and there for a few hours they saw their mother, Arlette Stavisky. widow of France's most famed swindler, once Chanel's most beautiful model, propped up in bed with her leg in a most realistic bandage. The children could scarcely believe their eyes last week when Maman came home...
...month after Ivar Kreuger shot himself to death in his Paris apartment in 1932, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. was appointed receiver to conserve the assets of International Match Corp., the Swedish swindler's principal U. S. sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match was a $200,000,000 concern with world-wide properties. Discovering only $9,871 in cash, the receivers searched the wide world for other Match assets. It disputed the claims of Kreuger & Toll. It accused the German Government of "flagrant discrimination" between Swedish and U. S. creditors under the famed "Kreuger...