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...trouble. They buy them cheap, use them as collateral for loans or to sweeten portfolios of their institutions. Some are sold to insurance companies which would rather pay a "reward" of 40? on the dollar for the bonds than stand the full loss covered by their policies. Repurchase of loot from the famed $1,000,000 Grand National Bank robbery in St. Louis two years ago broke a first-class scandal involving many a St. Louis lawyer, businessman and politician...
...Russian Imperial Bank had just been held up by a hard-eyed young revolutionary, later to be known as Josef Stalin. Pudgy Comrade Litvinov appeared at a window of the Credit Lyonnais in Paris with a sheaf of 500-ruble notes recognized as part of the Tiflis loot. Litvinov escaped to Britain after convincing French Republicans that the bank robbery was a political not a criminal act. In Britain he became a traveling salesman and married Ivy Low, niece of the late Sir A. Maurice Low. His revolutionary career was crowned with his appointment as Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
...Bahamas he preached to the planters' servants, learned from pirates the lore of the Spanish Main, conceived a scheme. The southern reaches of the Isthmus of Panama were known as Darien. From a peak in Darien Balboa first saw the Pacific. Soon the Spaniards were transporting their Inca loot across the Isthmus...
...Gustavo Ross furnished the stranded Lion with enough cash to go to Venice, eat spaghetti and ride in gondolas until the Chilean situation cleared up. Grateful, the Lion has not forgotten his debt to Don Gustavo, despite enemies who cry that now Don Gustavo will be able to "loot the country...
...gang was subdued, four gold bars with the Brooklyn firm's mark on them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were tossing their loot away because an inaccurate test had led them to believe it was brass. Workmen began dredging the East River's 60-ft. channel for 26 bars of precious metal...