Word: ransoming
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...military telegraph lines the only account of how his soldiers had detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China's great financial family, the House of Soong, and if they have not got $50,000,000 they know how to raise it on a few hours' notice "for the welfare of China" from...
...ransom asked, however, was not money. The Young Marshal asked, with the obvious motive of Chinese filial piety, and perhaps with other motives too, that the Chinese Cabinet pay the ransom of declaring war on Japan "immediately," and introducing these "reforms...
...John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name...
Said Surgeon General Charles Ransom Reynolds of the Army: "I am telling you that you must be ready with a plan for regimentation...
...silent in the committee chamber sat Hauptmann's prosecutor, New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz. When the Hallam report was released to news hawks, A.B.A.'s retiring President William Lynn Ransom, who with Newton Diehl Baker has been trying to convert the Press amicably, exploded: "Unauthorized, irregular, and improper...