Word: kidnap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South might possibly handle our own personal problems with, what shall we say, a heavy hand. And you of the East? Black Legion? Of the West? California Kidnap Lynchings? Tar and Feather parties? Of the North and Midwest? Milk Spillings and Strike Riots? Sho you-all don't mention those...
...Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot...
...frantically searched the woods at the edge of the park. Then to the gate of La Sorpresa two miles away cracked a grim order from Rancher Pereyra Iraola that no one should be allowed to leave. By telephone the whole southern Argentine was then called on its first major kidnap hunt...
...Tacoma, the solid members of that town's Chamber of Commerce sat down to compose as grave a memorandum of censure as Press and Radio ever received from a responsible U. S. body. Grievance of the Tacoma businessmen was the handling by newsgatherers for ink & air of the kidnap-murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson (TIME, Jan. 18). Sternly the Chamber of Commerce members agreed that newsmen had made "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child, unharmed," listed what they thought were some of the worst errors...
Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, fourth of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons, is always going somewhere, usually in a hurry. Vacationing from Yale in 1933, he worked for the Rockefellers' Humble Oil and Refining Co. in Texas until a kidnap scare caused him to scuttle for Manhattan in an airplane with a bodyguard. That autumn a Connecticut motorcycle police-man caught him doing 64 m.p.h. on the Boston Post Road. He said he was trying to get a friend to a boat, was fined $27. Early in 1934, because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale...