Word: looted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Neighbor Roosevelt, and the New York Times, in reporting the confiscation of 187 U. S.-owned estates, one of 27,000 acres, observed last week: "If the November election is any indication, the majority of Americans favor President Roosevelt's policy of not allowing individual Americans to loot our southern brothers...
...previous satrap "The Monster," the late notorious General Chang Tsung-chang, overtaxed and robbed the province into starvation. He escaped to Japan with a fortune of millions, murdered a Chinese prince who flirted with one of his concubines, was eventually assassinated when he returned to Shantung seeking further loot. Since 1930 exemplary General Han has built 4,000 miles of motor roads in Shantung, set running 400 buses, installed a provincial telephone system at a cost so low as to suggest there was no graft, and put taxes on a reasonable basis. He maintains a private army...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...
...lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley, made away with a three-foot rope of matched pearls worth $300,000, a diamond ring worth $38,000, enough other loot to bring the total to $400,000-largest robbery of its kind in Long Island history...
...position is being carefully watched," Foreign Secretary Eden assured him. Meantime the London Dally Herald had confidently announced that Italian funds for Arab rioters were coming into Palestine through French Syria. Bedouins were promised $15 a day, plus food and loot, for attacks on Palestine Jews. The last payment of which the paper professed knowledge was a lump sum of $25,000. To whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy...