Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen's conference in February, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. head of a committee to study the problem and prepare a program for its solution. The committee: James Roosevelt, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones, and Vice Chairman Ronald Ransom of the Federal Reserve Board...
...Germantown, Pa. home July 1, 1874 and has not appeared since. Last September memories of the original Charlie Ross were ironically revived when an elderly, well-to-do Chicago greeting card manufacturer was kidnapped on his way home from a dinner party, held for a $50,000 ransom which his wife promptly paid. The greeting card manufacturer's name was Charles Ross...
...interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that Gray had been his accomplice, that he had killed...
...Scotches manage between drinks to solve a kidnapping, a shooting and a poisoning on a Florida estate. In spots very funny; very, very tough throughout. Readers with weak stomachs had better not apply. A condensed version appeared serially in Collier's under the title A Queen's Ransom...
...Terre Haute, Ind., Farmer William H. Wilson divorced his wife. Reason: she took his false teeth, held them for $2 ransom...