Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...heart of all executive agencies, President Hoover turned to Detroit, picked breezy, bustling, ambitious Roy Dikeman Chapin, board chairman of Hudson Motor Car Co. Long have Mr. Chapin's friends known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became its president in 1910, board chairman...
...appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office Departments; a bill turning 45,000,000 bu. of wheat, 500,000 bales of cotton from the Farm Board to the Red Cross for needy relief; a bill providing a 20-year penalty for sending kidnapping or ransom letters through the mails...
...that no amount of secrecy on the part of Press or Police could return the child alive to its parents, the lid of caution abruptly blew off the case. For the first time pictures of the nursery were published. And the text of the original ransom note, which newspapers had withheld since the case entered its second day lest negotiations for the child's return be jeopardized, was unofficially made public...
...Schwarzkopf began examining he negotiators. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon told how the supposed kidnappers had sent him as an earnest to secure ransom, a sleeping garment which the Lindberghs identified as the one worn by their child the night of his abduction. The fact that the child's body was found without the sleeping garment led police to believe that the man to whom "Jafsie" Condon gave $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money, in a Bronx cemetery on April 2, represented the actual kidnappers and killers. Mr. Condon described this man, said he "could pick...