Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William L. Ransom, President of the American Bar Association, declared last night that conditions are better in New York City for law school graduates with good records and Law Review experience, and starting salaries are higher "than they ever have been within my knowledge...
...will be reconstructed Feb. 1. Only two members of the old board were named to the new: Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles, New Dealing banker from Utah; Menc S. Szymczak, onetime comptroller of Chicago. The new appointees: Joseph A. Broderick. onetime New York State superintendent of banks; Ronald Ransom, executive vice president of Fulton National Bank of Atlanta; John K. McKee, onetime receiver for National banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for the last two and one half years chief examiner for RFC; Ralph W. Morrison. Texas Hydro-electric tycoon, who in 1933 was one of the U. S. delegates...
...with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
...week's end the ostensibly irrelevant but to Cuban politicians basically fascinating ransom of $300,000 for Sugar Tycoon Castano was understood to have been paid. In Cuba such major kidnappings are commonly supposed to be the work of patriots who can think of no other way to raise enough money for a revolution. Sexagenarian Castano was finally discovered by soldiers in the suburbs, said no ransom had been paid...
...Bell- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). In late years attentive observers have noted two contrasting literary movements developing in such centres of native culture as Knoxville, Sewanee, and the hills of Tennessee. Most widely publicized of these has been the new agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow essays, in metaphysical verse that...