Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...speculated that the necropolis must have belonged to the Etruscan city of Spina, which is mentioned in classical literature. But they did not find Spina. They did not find all of the treasures, either. Many of the valuable objects were poached by night-digging Comacchiesi, who sold their illegal loot on the archaeological black market...
...letter and public statement. Time and again he called the subcommittee "completely dishonest"; time and again he charged that, by using public funds to investigate him, it was "guilty of stealing just as clearly as though the members engaged in picking the pockets of the taxpayers and turning the loot over to the Democrat National Committee...
Recapturing the Loot. Behind them the exile seekers left some $18 million worth of land, city real estate, factories, cars and bank accounts. During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions. "Progressive capitalists" who cooperated with the Reds got rich fast. With the owners gone, what was to be done with all this property...
...Hennings subcommittee, which investigated him in 1951-52, Chadwick read the extensive correspondence to and from Joe. Time after time, the subcommittee invited McCarthy to appear before it; time after time, Joe refused, accusing the subcommittee of such things as "picking the pockets of the taxpayers and turning the loot over to the Democratic National Committee." lawyer Williams argued that, even if the charge were true, it does not now constitute grounds for censuring McCarthy. Said Chairman Watkins: "We do not agree with you. And that is obvious, or we would not have the charges before us at this time...