Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unclaimed Loot to be Shared...
Cambridge Detective Bureau offices in Central Square, which to date have served as a warehouse for the still unclaimed portions of Parkhurst's loot, will soon be relieved of the remaining goods and clothing. Officers reported yesterday that the convicted man's father, Irving B. Parkhurst, assistant business manager of the University, had arranged for its removal and storage...
...dark man said his name was Allen La Rue. Over drinks, he told Pearl that he was an insurance detective. He was after one jewel thief in particular-a woman he said toted her loot in a hip-belt under her dress. Somehow, he had to catch her with the jewels...
...couple of weeks, and many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
...written the U.S. Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house-Goudstikker of Amsterdam:-for a museum in memory of his mother. (He assumed that all the North European paintings he liked must necessarily be "German" in inspiration.) U.S. soldiers rediscovered the Dutch loot among 4,000 paintings hidden in a salt mine at Alt Aussee...