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...judicious combination of blackmail, privilege and loot, Himmler has gathered a fortune. By 1940 he had invested no less than $2,200,000 in South American countries, the Syrian carpet trade, Finland's pulp industry, life-insurance policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Japan's survival in the Pacific depends on her merchant fleet, which must bring back Jap loot from Asia and the East Indies, transport Jap supplies to extended island bases. In one of his most optimistic moods, ebullient Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week told the U.S. public that one-third of Japan's precious cargo shipping had been sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Few Details But High Praise | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Swagger. In Manhattan, Pickpocket David Hauser appeared in court wearing what he called a loot suit-loose at the waist, tight at the cuffs, for the transportation of swag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions in these hills. This dream and the native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth which he is sinking into Turkish gold and British sovereigns and real estate in Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo. Thus it is that, backed by 15 or 20 thousand rifles, he could proclaim himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God into Deputy | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Papal Nuncio to Munich, tried (and failed) to talk the Kaiser into a peaceful frame of mind After the Kaiser fled, Pacelli lived through the Bavarian Soviet Republic. On one occasion he faced down a band of armed revolutionaries who had broken into the Papal Embassy, intending to loot the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace & the Papacy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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