Word: ransoming
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...magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large...
...succeed him, Secretary Morgenthau selected Frank Wilson, a keen-looking sleuth with a sharp inquiring nose and glittering spectacles. New Chief Wilson dug up the income tax evasion evidence which sent Al Capone to prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...
Until last fortnight there had been no kidnapping for ransom in the U. S. since nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser of the rich lumber family was snatched at Tacoma in May 1935 (TIME, June 3, 1935 et seq.). George Weyerhaeuser, whose captors were caught and given stiff sentences after obtaining $200,000 for his release, used to play with Charles Mattson when he went to Haddaway Hall, the former home of his grandfather, two blocks away from the Mattson home...
There was every reason this week to continue to suspect that the events at Sian, clouded by side issues of kidnapping, ransom and highjacking, were basically an exploration and feeling out of each other by the Chinese Communists and Dictator Chiang. Young Marshal Chang, after waiting around in Finance Minister Kung's house for four days, received from the Chinese Government full pardon and restoration of his civil rights, walked out scot free as the kidnapping profession's outstanding Boy Who Made Good...
Dictator Chiang has for so many years played such a tedious waiting game that the Young Marshal, when he publicly demanded as part of the "ransom" fortnight ago that the Nanking Government speed up and declare war on Japan, was voicing the aspiration of millions of Chinese The announced policy of the kidnapper is so exceedingly popular-even if it is an ex-dope's not too bright idea-that almost every Chinese inevitably must be more or less drawn to it, even Dictator Chian" who knows that he cannot procrastinate forever...