Word: swindler
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...crowd of irate Germans brandishing 1,000 mark pre-War banknotes, surged into a Berlin courtroom last week, howled that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German Reichsbank is a swindler...
...court by a back door, appeared as the plaintiff in a suit for libel against one Herr Roll, president of the Reichsbank Creditors' Association. Dr. Schacht complained that Herr Roll had libelously defamed him in a public speech as "the hangman of German industry . . . no cheat but a swindler...
...hangman and a swindler!" shouted the mob-composed exclusively of members of Herr Roll's association. "Pay us! Pay us, Schacht! We want 1,000 gold marks for every one of these!" They waved their now worthless pre-War 1,000 paper mark notes. Eventually police reserves arrived, quelled the disorder, made possible the continuance of Dr. Schacht's libel suit...
...times such as the present, when money is very generally seeking investment, the security swindler plans to reap his harvest. Already the published tax lists have provided many valued suggestions to the Caesars as to the meat whereon they may feed. Promoters are becoming active in the ever-fruitful Middle West. In spurious securities as in women's hats, fashions come and go. The great oil stock mania has apparently burned itself out, but in its place has arrived a credulity concerning fake land companies, ingenious but unsalable patent devices with "millions in it," and other corporate novelties...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...