Word: ransoming
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...moment you begin helping the Jews out of that country, you are aiding and abetting a policy of the Hitler government.... You are paying the kidnapper the ransom he demands, for you will be contributing to the Von Rath "fine" or to a "leaving-the-country" tax.... And if the Nazi government succeeds in getting this ransom money, it at once establishes a precedent to be followed by other European Have-Not countries, such as Italy, Poland, and Hungary, where Anti-Semitism smolders, awaiting a real test of its usefulness as an instrument of economic policy. Hence, the welfare...
...others soon steered the auto industry into less horse-conscious ways. Next year Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds had patents, year after that Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers joined the motorcade. Sketchily financed at the start, the Duryea car that won the first U.S. automobile race (Chicago, 1895) and led the parade for several years with Barnum's circus, never burned up the roads in a business way. Duryea was for simplification, economy. One model had only three wheels, another had all the functions of steering, braking, gear shifting, spark control and acceleration combined in a single...
...direction of an authoritative government, will make it possible for all Spaniards to forget these years of conflict and cruelty and will rapidly re-establish domestic peace. Then the harsh trials of the present times may be regarded in our country as a baptism of blood, a kind of ransom that had to be paid for the renewing of Spain...
...Border States would go if war came. They vacillated, compromised, stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture modeled on pre-Civil War agrarianism...
...Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket...