Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice as one of the 4,750 gold and silver certificates passed through an opening in the hedge of a Bronx cemetery on the night of April 2, 1932 by John F. ("Jafsie") Condon as ransom for Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. More than $5,000 of the ransom money had turned up in 716 transactions during the past two years. But no one who had received any of it had ever been alert enough to connect it with the case. License number 4U-13-41, penciled...
...suspect the attack until it was too late. But the Indian warriors, under the nominal command of French officers, did not massacre everybody. They captured all the men, women and children they could, made off with them on the cold journey to Canada, to hold them for ransom. A woman two days out of childbed survived while others fell or were tomahawked by the way. Parson Chapman nearly went out of his head when the Indians let his wife drown under the river...
...herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield, build up again their charred and blood-soaked houses...
...Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. with two automobiles named after him (Reo, Oldsmobile). The white-crested old founder-chairman has watched his company pile up $9,000,000 of deficits in four years. The Michigan bank crash tied up 70% of the company's funds. Working capital declined from $20,000,000 to about $7,000,000. Early this year Founder Olds, now 70, emerged from retirement to win a proxy battle for control, has since been active in a thoroughgoing internal reorganization. An important point in any merger talk is Reo's truck...
...Lapeyre's report last week, a lover of child sacrifice. Urns were unearthed containing the charred bones of children as old as 12, as young as a few months. Animal bones found in other receptacles led expedition members to guess that lambs, pigs, kids had been offered as ransom for intended child victims...