Word: kidnapings
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...Louis kidnap case little Adolphus was secretly restored to his parents only 20 hours after his disappearance. Possibly through his own friendship-or that of his managing editor, Frank W. Taylor-with the Busch family, Reporter Brundidge learned that the name of Pearl Abernathy, a local Negro real estate dealer, had been mentioned in the Busch household. Next day the Star blazed out its first scoop: "Negro Real Estate Man Exposes Own Son [Charles] As Abductor." Also it printed nearly a full front page of pictures of the room where the boy had been held. Next day Reporter Brundidge...
...Star's opposition took its defeat in the Busch case bitterly, the Times reputedly discharging three reporters for falling down. The Globe Democrat man had even talked to the elder Abernathy, but could not make him talk "kidnap." The Post-Dispatch had assigned its own No. i newsman, and one not often bested -John T. Rogers...
...most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also...
...insurance policy (adopted also by other surety companies) provides against losses through kidnaping robberies. Robber-kidnapers go to the home of the bank cashier, or other official, compel him to accompany them to the bank, to open the safe for them when the time-lock runs out. By the payment of a small extra premium, banks and businesses can protect themselves from such kidnap losses. National Surety Co. also wrote last week a suicide policy, said to be the first of its kind. A manufacturer (unspecified) wished to borrow $25,000 from his bank. As the business depended largely upon...
...been renominated in 1916 and again in 1922 and still again in 1928 he would today, aged 50, be seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee Colonel, fought with distinction, tried (and nearly succeeded) to kidnap the Kaiser. Then he plunged into publishing the Nashville Tennessean, Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal, Knoxville Journal...