Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William L. Ransom, New York expert on international law, died of a heart attack Saturday while attending a conference at the Law School. He was 65 years...
Except for the Lindbergh case, in which Irey got Hauptmann by tracing registered ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...
...weathered slumps (by upping volume and cutting prices) and other storms, including the divorce of her first husband. When she was kidnaped in 1931, Nellie refused to pay a $75,000 ransom. She was released, ransom-free, soon married her lawyer, Missouri's aged (73) ex-U.S. Senator James A. Reed (who died eleven years later...
...Stand back, ye lawful accusers, I die a ransom...
...Ransom!" The Salvation Army (first called the Christian Mission) and Evangeline were both born in the same year. At 15 she was fitted out with a sergeant's uniform and sallied forth as a full-fledged soldier of Christ. The Salvationists of those days lived in a world of bitter war. Mission houses were "citadels" and "forts," converts were "prisoners of war" or "trophies." Posters proclaimed...