Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Concessionnaires sold to the 60,000 daily sightseers 10? replicas of the kidnap ladder, reporters adjourned to Nellie's Tap Room, after filing a million words daily, to sing a parody of the German Schnitzel-bank song about the ransom note and the baby's sleeping garment, and Edward J. Reilly took the defense with small chance of pay because "it's a criminal lawyer's dream of a case." To millions of decent U. S. citizens the Flemington trial seemed more like a nightmare, and fortnight...
...city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid all equipment & pumping costs. But last week, grumbling of "holdups," "ransom" and "bloodmoney," The Century of Progress offered City Council $25,000 for its $268,132 claim...
...Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston are the only two Negroes ever to serve on the Harvard Law Review, and except for Dr. Leon A. Ransom of Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman of the Speakers Bureau, National Democratic Committee, Eastern...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
...Motor Car Co.'s annual meeting three years ago an Independent Stockholders' Committee started a proxy battle to oust the management because of mounting deficits. The attack fizzled when Reo's onetime President Richard Hugh Scott decided that he wanted no feud with old Chairman Ransom Eli Olds. In 1935, increased success with Speed Wagons and heavy duty trucks enabled Reo to finish the year with a deficit of only $220,000, a reduction of $738,000 from 1934. But last year the deficit swelled to $1,399,000. This included $605,000 for extraordinary expenses occasioned...