Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...
...Bond Astronomical Club, of which Shapley is one of the three counsellors, is headed by Professor W. R. Ransom, of Tufts College, and meets periodically at the Harvard Observatory. It was founded for the purpose of bringing amateur study to bear upon the problems of modern stellar science, and consists of prominent professional and amateur scientists. Its rapid growth was one of the leading causes for the recently announced annex to the main section of the University plant, since existing accommodations are proving too small for the frequent meetings of the club...
Various fantastic aspects of the case remained uncleared last week. The family stoutly denied a persistent report that $100,000 ransom had been paid. Xo other motive for the kidnapping was offered; no explanation of why the Post-Dispatch and Reporter Rogers were selected to reap the glory (Rogers was given a bonus of one year's salary?said to exceed $6,000?for his scoop). Opposition papers boldly hinted that the Post-Dispatch was withholding
Several Red bandit armies are constantly on the move, integrating their movements by means of field radio. While one or two armies engage Government troops one or two others sack a city, massacre, carry off prominent citizens to be held for ransom, after which all four armies withdraw banditwise to the mountains, split spoils...
...Ransom values of U. S. missionaries to Chinese bandits fluctuate widely. Thus the Lutheran Mission at Hankow paid $2,350 plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...