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...often on moving trains, choose sparsely settled country where a highway runs beside the tracks. Swinging off from box car roofs on rope ladders, they break the seals on the doors, climb in and toss out everything they can lay their hands on. Confederates in trucks pick up the loot...
Tokyo dispatches last week reported such high "Rearmament fever" that Japanese miscreants were stealing knobs off doors, absconding with household plumbing, selling their metallic loot to the Imperial Government's munitions foundries & shipyards...
There in a squalid hovel of mats she teaches her children to beg, goes out alone in the midst of rioting to help loot a rich merchant's house. Though trampled and nearly shot, she gets away with a pouch of jewels. She gives them to Wang, keeping only two pearls-"not to wear-I am too plain-but to look at when I am alone...
...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...