Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangster cycle five years ago, censors had not yet ruled that picture makers must not show the manner in which a crime is committed. This story obeys the new rule by beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact...
Hudson's Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin, onetime (1932-33) Secretary of Commerce, has been Topman in his company since 1910. He got into motors by way of photography. Hired by Ransom Eli Olds in 1901, he made all the pictures for the first Olds catalog. As Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, his premature predictions of Depression's end surprised automobile associates who had long admired him as an able man of business. But Politician Chapin was merely upholding the traditions of his office by breathing optimisms of which Automan Chapin would never have been guilty...
...under the new-old management of Chairman Ransom Eli Olds, who founded the Reo company in 1904 but who had been in virtual retirement for ten years when, in 1934, an intracompany row brought him back to active leadership. During the first half of 1935, Reo made $42,156 but even this tiny profit was welcome after five consecutive years of deficits. Of late Reo has become primarily a truck maker, in 1934 turning out only 3,854 passenger cars as against 5.035 trucks. Government purchases of trucks have supplied a very substantial portion of Reo's business...
...witness stand went rich young Alice Speed Stoll, daughter-in-law of a Louisville oilman, to tell how Thomas H. Robinson Jr. had abducted her from her suburban home in October 1934, held her captive in an Indianapolis apartment for the next six days while dickering for $50,000 ransom (TIME, Oct. 20, 1934). 'Napper Robinson's eccentricity is transvestitism. Since he habitually wears women's clothes, Government agents have not yet been able to pick up his trail...
...justice last week were Robinson's wife, to whom Mrs. Stoll was once grateful for conveying her back home, and Robinson's father, a Nashville. Tenn. engineer who rejected the ransom when it was sent to his house, went to Government agents for advice, became intermediary only after persuasion from the Stolls. Things began to look bad for Robinson Sr., however, when Government agents revealed that they had found in his Nashville home a floor plan of his son's Indianapolis hideout. But the Louisville jury took only seven and a half hours to acquit both Father...