Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair was being financed by a "public utility having financial connections with Spain." Best guess was that that meant Sofina, international utility trust which owns properties both in Spain and in Argentina. Perhaps penniless Franco was holding Sofina's Spanish properties for ransom money to be delivered in Buenos Aires...
...verse; keeping its essential character without ever letting it descend to self conciousness. Benjamin Britten's score, too, provides a coloristic background for the play. To single out any of the performers for praise is practically impossible; the entire cast is magnificent. Leonard Kent as the hero Michael Ransom performs beautifully in a gruelling role; Earl Montgomery as Lord Stagmantle and Jervis McMechan as Ian Shawcross also give outstanding performances. As a last word, one must mention the impressive sets and stagings. Ransom's death-dream is a triumph of direction...
Popeyed and incredulous was Bob Greenwood when New England sought him out six months ago and offered a deal: the whole works for $1, with a king's ransom in debt ($388,427 including interest) completely wiped out, no strings attached. How New England happened to pick him, Bob Greenwood says he still does not know. But townspeople can guess: onetime furniture manufacturer, onetime chairman of the town Public Service Committee, Bob Greenwood was about as popular a businessman as there was in Gardner, and had had no steady job of late...
...Caught Bruno Hauptmann, because Elmer Irey insisted (over Colonel Lindbergh's objections) on recording the numbers of the ransom money...