Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police suspected no "higher-ups." Federal officers at once took charge and custody under the statute passed last July, carrying penalties for mailing kidnap threats and ransom demands of $5,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both. The other new sword to avenge Baby Lindbergh is the 1932 Federal law against actual interstate kidnapping, providing "such term of years [in prison] as the court, in its discretion shall determine...
Meanwhile last week Charles Boettcher II, 31, wealthy aviation acquaintance of Col. Lindbergh's, was kidnapped one midnight as he stepped from his automobile at his Denver home. His wife promptly offered to pay the $60,000 ransom for his release...
...Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...
Died. William Tarbell Ransom. 86, president of Niagara Textile Co.; in Lockport, N. Y. Told that the U. S. climate was unfavorable to linen weaving, doubting Ransom in 1899 started a mill and the U. S. linen weaving industry (now about 8,000,000 sq. yd. yearly...
Japanese residents rewarded Captain Kawahito with a party. Money for the ransom, they said, came not from the Japanese Government but from the Seigidan, local Japanese patriotic society...