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Since 1935 wealthy residents of Hollywood and its swank suburbs have been apprehensive of an unapprehended "phantom burglar." Last week in San Francisco the phantom, one Ralph R. Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...
...exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign assets and ex change, which Germany may not get (see p. 18). This loot was small but enough to make any pinched-bellied dictator's fingers itch...
...almost all the CzechoSlovak loot could eventually have been acquired by "gentle pressure" without actual occupation. In moving into Czecho-Slovakia the Führer abandoned his previous policy of trying to create a string of ideological vassals (such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia showed signs of becoming), economically subservient but nominally independent...
Quick-witted General Lister then ordered his troops to fill pockets and bags with the precious loot and to carry it across the French border to the Loyalist Consulate at Perpignan. Three trucks were thus emptied. No time remained, however, and the other six were dynamited...
...whose favorite pupils he is said to be directly descended. When barely 19 his academic robe was adorned with "four buttons,"scholarly rewards for "felicity in phrasing."Almost alone among Chinese war lords, he cared little for wealth, was scrupulously honest, did not allow his troops to loot the Chinese countryside over which they maneuvered...