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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schacht Libeled | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...Worthless checks signed "von Krupp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...still dislikes publicity. Last week arrested at Albuquerque, N. M., for cashing a worthless check, he protested in indignation that among his friends were Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Russell Firestone (son of Akron's tireman), Thomas Edison, Governor Smith of New York, Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baron von Krupp | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Baron" had used the alias, "George Adorgan," when attempting to enter Yale University last fall and had passed several worthless checks upon sophisticated New Haven merchants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baron von Krupp | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Without Petulance | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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