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...York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...
...significant reasons why the British were able to retake Cyrenaica-and still more significant evidence on the much-disputed state of Nazi oil supplies -was found last week among their African loot. It was a German military directive saying...
...peculiar judgment: "I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium -rare equilibrium!" > After years of Rumanian misrule, when he was chased out of the country by the Nazi Iron Guard he was forced to leave behind millions in royal loot, but managed to gjet away with sums estimated as high...
...message flattened by the weight of 89 years. In company with 100 other letters which carried the appeals, hopes, fears and gossip of Americans long dead, it lay hidden between the attic joists of a 130-year-old Philadelphia house. There the mail robbers had retired to examine their loot, extract the money, toss the rest away...
...order to deal with the situation we must first understand Japanese psychology. In times past they had reason for grievance against the western powers. After wars with China and Russia they felt that we had snatched some of their loot. Therefore, they felt they had as good a right as anyone to help themselves in Asia...