Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rough country ladies," turned bandits, carried off "many young men of rich families" and held them for ransom. Some of the "ladies" were pretty, so the captives got married and settled down to a life of banditry. Meanwhile, picked soldiers, "more heartless in treatment of their captives than the men in the interior districts," were "armed with modern pistols and iron clubs" and sent to "get" the "rough country ladies...
...These final measures are the ransom France must pay for a policy in the Ruhr which has prevented any settlement of the reparations problem. They are a confession of failure. It was the Ruhr occupation which caused depreciation of the franc; if the franc improves it will not be thanks to the measures now being voted but to the work of the experts and consequent abandonment of the policy which France inaugurated 14 months...
HARVARD ANDOVER Woodard, g. g., Flynn Ross or Stern, r.f.b. r.f.b., Ransom Morey, l.f.b. l.f.b., Tseng Herling, r.h.b. r.h.b., Dean Burnett, c.h.b. c.h.b., Potter (Capt.) Hale, l.h.b. l.h.b., Perkins Gherardi (Capt.), r.o.f. r.o.f., Tsai Gans, r.i.f. r.i.f., Holt Crooks,c .f. c.f., English MacKinnon or Leith, l.i.f. l.i.f., Samper Pruyn, l.o.f. l.o.f., Chan...
...smoker committee was also appointed as follows: Clifton Powell Fordyce of Hot Springs, Arkansas; Charles Kimball Cummings Jr. of Boston; Alexander Haven Ladd Jr. of Milton; and Harry Ransom Davis of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...Bertram Kimball Little Robert Adams Cushman Theodore Ristine Olive John Rogers Flather Robert Worthington CLASS DAY COMMITTEE (Seven to be elected) Carl Vezey Chandler Clifton Powell Fordyce Winthrop Hallowell Churchill Henry Pratt Upham Harris Joseph Sill Clark Jr. Henry Sturgis Morgan Henry Wadsworth Clark Herbert Lee Pratt Jr. Harry Ransom Davis Russell Robb Jr. Justin Hanley Dempsey Duncan Forbes Thayer Morris Duane Philips Elder Wilson