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...more she thought about it, the bloodthirstier her language became: "Yes, they're nutty all right, these 'liberals'-for they can't see further ahead than the first frenzied days of plunder, murder, fire, rape and prancing about with pale, fresh-cut human heads on bloody pikes . . . besotted in their lust for blood and carnage and dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Loony? | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches of Tzu Hsi's Imperial Palaces at Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yehonala's Loot | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...German radio saw it otherwise, described it as "Morgenthau's Jewish Bank, to Plunder the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Mr. White's White Paper | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...board of Economic Warfare last April estimated the total German plunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime in Liquidation | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...other nonmilitary buildings. By & large, they had spared Naples' art and churches, but enough damage had been done by Germans and by Allied bombs to make Romans shudder. Persistent report had the Nazis systematically looting the capital's art treasures. Northbound trains were said to be bearing plunder to the castles and villas where Göring, Himmler and lesser German collectors had stored the loot of Warsaw, Paris and Kiev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Time and the Teuton | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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