Word: swindler
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...French politician last week was the word Stavisky. Sweeping together the best Cabinet he could, sly Premier Daladier planned to neutralize public opinion on the Stavisky scandal by asking the Chamber of Deputies to turn the matter over to an investigating committee. But the scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet wide open, it seemed almost...
...emerge from retirement and come forward as a "nonpolitical" Premier, he declined, pleading his age (70). Chunky, canny Edouard Herriot was next best choice, but though untouched by the Stavisky scandal himself, he is president of the Radical Socialist Party which has been accused of accepting campaign contributions from Swindler Stavisky. Edouard Daladier therefore got the call, accepted. Though unwilling to make them, Gaston Doumergue suggested that drastic constitutional changes must be made in French Parliamentary practice...
...Palace of Justice this week Deputy Andre Hesse, onetime lawyer of Swindler Stavisky, was set upon and his robe nearly torn off by an indignant young attorney who kept shouting "How dare you show yourself here!" Pummeling each other the two rolled on the floor until separated and dragged before the president of the Paris Bar for a slashing reprimand...
...horses and no faith in his own tips, he soon dropped the $3,000,000 he had so quickly acquired. But he learned enough about sucker psychology to follow his true calling. And it was not long before he was rated the most successful and the most tireless stock swindler...
Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...