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...brought by a man from the Audubon Society personally." During the Depression, Allen recommended setting up "a crumb line for midgets." His friendly enemy, Jack Benny, was not far from Twain's platform personality in a radio skit in which he was held up by a burglar: Thief: "Your money or your life." Benny (after a 30-second pause): "I'm thinking...
...Michigan man faces ten years for possessing burglary tools, but only five for using them. In North Carolina, a housebreaker who slips through a partly opened door can get ten years; a burglar who personally opens the same door another inch faces death. Even federal income tax raps seem out of whack: the maximum for falsifying a return is five years compared with one year for not filing...
...leave it alone, we're going to support South Viet Nam. If they do leave it alone, peace can come very fast. It's not for me to say what the Communists get out of it. We don't accept the view that the burglar or the robber is entitled to something just because he makes the effort. When they have reached the point where they have decided that [victory in the south] is not a result they can achieve, then perhaps there can be peace in the area...
...Louisiana's Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...
Cambridge police arrested three Boston area men early yesterday morning on charges of "being abroad at night and carrying burglar tools," near the Harvard Cooperative Society laundry building...