Word: ransoming
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Often Mother Advocate takes pleasure in extending the hospitality of the College to people of artistic and literary interests, pausing in Cambridge. The last guests to oblige with readings at Spring teas were Robert Frost and John Crowe Ransom. It is not even difficult to remember back to mid-winter when she felt very comfortable in the same room with Miss Gertrude Stein, and was vastly entertained...
...crowd, wondering what they had done to win so much praise. A small boy who was collecting the paper craft was advised to go out into the field to pick them up, or at least to ask the gentleman in white to hand them to him. "Kings Ransom the World's Best Scotch", outlined in crimson against the blue vaults of the heavens, attracted a few bleary eyes. But on the field, even the doodlebug tricks of the invaders as they entered the arena left the spectators cold...
...taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert F. Wagner, white . . . Claude A. Barnett, editor-in-chief, Associated Negro Press . . . Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom of the African Methodist Episcopal Church . . . Dr. R. R. Moton, retired principal, Tuskeegee . . . George Foster Peabody, banker . . . Dr. Mary F. Waring, president, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs...
Promptly on George Weyerhaeuser's release after payment of $200,000 ransom (TIME, June 10), Chief Hoover had issued a serial number list of the ransom bills, put 100 of his agents on the kidnappers' trail. Within a few days 30 of the bills had turned up in Utah banks, been traced to Salt Lake City stores. A local detective was waiting when, one week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier...
...named William Mahan whom he had once arrested for bank robbery. As he approached, the man began to run. The policeman lost his quarry over a back fence and roof top. But in the Ford sedan which the man had deserted were found $15,155 worth of Weyerhaeuser ransom bills. All roads leading from Butte were promptly bottled...