Word: swindler
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...London, where some of the world's greatest swindles are performed (Londoner Clarence Hatry still holds the record with his $67,000,000 job-TIME, Oct. 21, 1929 et seq.), Justice dealt in Old Bailey Court last week with Brynar James Owen. Swindler Owen, soon after the recent Imperial Conference of the Empire Prime Ministers (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), walked into the office of International Harvester Company of Great Britain, Ltd. He said that he was the director of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering & Research at Oxford University, a project financed by the Ministry of Agriculture. This...
...certain kind of unpretentious comedy, usually built around the lady who runs the boarding house, her loafer husband, her pretty daughter, the star and other boarders. In Laugh and Get Rich, written by Douglas MacLean who four years ago was a famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor's device?to provide whistling valves on flat tires?is sold for a large sum. As farce...
Into the London bankruptcy court marched Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, head of a family which came to England with William the Conqueror. Land-poor after the War, he had sought employment. Clarence Hatry (stock swindler whose failure precipitated the 1929 stockmarket crash), gave him a $75,000-a-year job as "director." Later Lord Winchester resigned because he "did not agree with [Hatry's] methods of business," but he was nevertheless held responsible for the sale of some fake stocks. To pay these debts, the Marquess speculated, was caught by 1930 bears. Last week...
...call from a man telling correspondingly accurate stories about the son's college life, and finally asking to cash a check for $25. The doctor, completely taken in, did so, but the check was returned from the bank, marked "no such account." Of course, by that time, the swindler had moved away from the Twin Cities...
...Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator René Héry of the Democratic Left who led the attack on M. Tardieu adroitly made the most of this...