Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bondsman, not only made a lucrative career out of springing prostitutes for onetime Crime King "Lucky" Luciano, but turned state's evidence when the roof fell in and got off without a bruise. Barry, however, was both stupid and unlucky. He had hardly started a career as a holdup man at the age of 16 before he was nabbed by the cops. At 18 he found himself doing time in a reformatory. Last week, out on parole and 20, he swaggered out to try again...
...Mighty Debt. But the old holdup preyed on his conscience. Because of Hugh, who might have faced a murder charge, he kept silent for four decades. But when his brother died two years ago, Charley began settling his affairs. Then he told the Governor of Wyoming: "I have no incentive ... to continue this life of shame ... I am ready to pay my debt to society . . . [although Hugh and I] paid a mighty sum in remorse, tears, lonesomeness and regret." Last week, 62-year-old Charley Whitney pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a district court at Kemmerer...
Sales Trend. In Los Angeles, Albert Zubrinski's chain market was robbed of $900 by holdup men who grumbled, "Business must be bad," was robbed of $4,650 a week later by the same men who commented, "Business is picking...
Connoisseur. In St. Louis, as four holdup men were leaving the home of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Roehl with $25,000 worth of loot, one remarked politely: "You certainly have a nice place here...
...holdup men seemed to have made a clean getaway in New England's biggest holdup since the $1,500,000 Brink's robbery...