Word: burglars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Pennsylvania's U. S. Representative Charles Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...
...latest assessment of the price of socialism comes from Norman Thomas; for a socialistic burglar selected his particular summer home of all those on Long Island from which to filch fifty prime hens. For while Mr. Thomas was interpreting his doctrine literally by leaving his chicken shanty unlocked in a spirit of welcome to rich man, poor man, beggar man, and even to thief, the burglar seems to have taken him at his word. And the doubting Thomas awoke yesterday morning to find that a modicum of his store had been spirited away, because, to use his own ungracious phrase...
...should not grow angry at his Norman invasion, nor call the special body of armed men. For perhaps all is just as it should be; the burglar merely anticipating a great social reform, the state already beginning to wither away. He should find some consolation in his first constructive step towards the socialization of the means of production, even though the ownership be but multiplied by two; and perhaps he may continue his good work if he will only be so good as to replenish his supply of hens and continue to leave the door unlocked...
...Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S. Pete Bostwick went to England last autumn planning to ride one of his own steeplechasers in the Grand National, but his likeliest mount, Burglar, trained badly. Last week he accepted the Whitney horse...
...held. But the Huntington Park High School had to be dynamited when fire got beyond control. At Watts, the city hall, school, postoffice and Odd Fellows building lay in desolate heaps. At Artesia another school burned. At San Diego radios went off and the First National Bank's burglar alarm went on. Throughout the area trains had all halted where they were to prevent derailment. In San Pedro Harbor the cruiser Northampton, feeling a sharp tug on her anchor chain, got up steam in readiness...