Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ransom money on him when arrested and $14.590 more was found in his garage. 2) Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's partner in random business ventures, used ransom money to pay his passage back to Ger many, where Fisch died of tuberculosis in 1933. 3) The handwriting on the note left in the baby's crib and subsequent ransom notes tallies with the handwriting on Hauptmann's automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom notes delivered to Dr. Condon the sleeping suit worn by the baby on the night of the abduction. 5 ) Hauptmann did only...
...HANGMAN-John Stephen Strange-Crime Club ($2). Snow, gossip, kidnapping and murder in Baltimore. Through pink note paper and pink cheeks, the U. S. Post Office's Inspector Peel narrowly averts injustice...
Thomas Benton has filled scores of note books with sketches of the U. S. scene which eventually find their way into his work. He boasts that all his burlesque queens, stevedores, Negroes, preachers, and college professors are actual persons. His vivid portraits of them are fast becoming collectors' items and the cost of Bentons has been steadily rising since the Navy put him on the right artistic track. Last week, Thomas Benton, who is usually jolly, had a special reason to be cheerful. He sold his oil, Cotton Town (see reproduction), to Marshall Field...
...every year. Once while he was traveling on the Yukon River with the late great Jacob Schiff, that immigrant financier mentioned proudly that he would soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the U. S with only $500. On the anniversary, shrewd Mr Plimpton sent him a note, received $550,000 in return. On another occasion John Davison Rockefeller Sr. took Mr Plimpton aside, told him how he had once stood outside a Baptist Church begging for money, advised solemnly: "Begging will do you good too." Mr. Plimpton took the advice, begged $250,000 from the elder Rockefeller...
...ascensions across the Prussian lines, the relief army from the South, the National Guard, and the final triumphal entry of the besiegers, followed by the proclamation in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles of the German Empire--the whole is a fantasy worthy of the Arabian Nights, with a note of tragedy added...