Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word. In Toledo, Mrs. Lizzie Hopkins reported to police that thieves had slashed open the top of her convertible, ignored other loot to make off with a Bible from the glove compartment...
Oblenis was taken into custody after he failed to explain the discrepancy between bike and clothes. A search of the youth's home uncovered the rent of the alleged loot...
...land to share it with those who have none. Without using the words of the gentle Evangelist who preceded him by two thousand years, he tells his audiences that it is more blessed to give than to receive. To those who have land he says: "I have come to loot you with love. If you have four sons, consider me as the fifth, and accordingly give me my share." To impoverished tenants and landless laborers he says: "We are all members of a single human family...
...Together." Angel saw to it that the Counts led privileged lives. They wore soft black felt hats with white bands, special T-shirts with "The Counts" lettered on them; dressed up, they wore small golden crowns on their lapels. The loot from a series of petty holdups and strong-arm robberies kept them well supplied with money; the Counts rented a $4O-a-month apartment, stocked it with whisky and used it as a place to bring chosen bobby-soxers. When a neighboring gang, the Brewerytowners, tried to muscle in on them, the Counts took them on in street fights...
...fighting squads" which robbed banks, public treasuries, steamships. His biggest haul: a quarter of a million rubles in a stickup in the main square of Tiflis. Among those arrested as a result of this raid was Litvinov, future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was trying to dispose of the loot in Paris. Koba, although on the police "wanted" list, managed to keep in the background. He was a terrorist, but a terrorist who operated through committees. This was caution; none ever questioned his personal courage...