Word: burglar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tattletale. In Harlan, Ky., police hunting a grocery burglar had no trouble trailing Claude Large, who had spilled the beans...
...Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...
Hippocrates. In Los Angeles, a burglar, climbing into the office of Dr. J. Lewis Bruce, slipped and fell through the transom, cut himself, telephoned the doctor, who came on the run and patched him up, refused to prosecute...
...think the myth of Red superiority is a bubble. They do, however, have two advantages over us. They have initiative . . . Hitler had it too . . . any burglar has . . . while we're bound to legal nonaggressive methods both morally and politically. As compensation, we have the advantage of people who are generally accepted as being in the right...
Success in burglary, as in other fields of human endeavor, depends on keen awareness of changing values. In London's Mayfair last week, a promising burglar broke into the apartment of Adman Patrick Dolan and took...