Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Property Act. Department of Justice agents reopened the case, got the two thieves sentenced to 25 years in prison. More important, the Miami chief of detectives informed them that it was Noel Scaffa who had delivered the jewels, that a split of the insurance company's $15,000 reward had been planned with a Scaffa operative in for $1,000. A Federal Grand Jury in New York promptly summoned Detective Scaffa for questioning. Chief J. Edgar Hoover let it be known that his Federal Bureau of Investigation was about to crack open a criminal ring which would make...
...founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding a felony by allowing "Sam Layton" to escape. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, the second in a directed verdict of acquittal...
...more economical for companies like Federal Insurance Co., employing Noel Scaffa, to pay a 10% reward for the return of stolen jewels than to pay the full value to their owners. It is safer and more profitable for thieves to secure that reward than to try to dispose of their loot through "fences." It is also obvious that, as connecting link between complaisant insurance company and eager thief, a detective like Scaffa is in an exceedingly tempting position. How large did Scaffa loom in the current picture...
...boss (Arthur Byron). When his fiancee jilts him, he marries the first presentable girl (Josephine Hutchinson) he meets in Shanghai because to return to his post single might cause him to look ridiculous and thus diminish his value to the company. Even when, as a reward for years of faithful service, his boss receives a humiliating demotion that will reduce his pension, Stephen Chase is discouraged but not disillusioned. The night his son is born, he leaves his wife to fight a fire in a reserve tank. Put in charge of a bigger office, he discharges his best friend...
...upshot of all this, when he gets back to Shanghai, is enough to give pause even to an idealist as confirmed as Stephen Chase. Credit for his lamp has been assigned to one of his superiors. The position which should have been his reward for meritorious service has gone to an incompetent sycophant. A highly improbable transoceanic telephone call, from the president of the company in New York to Stephen's superior in Shanghai, sets things right at the last minute but Director Mervyn LeRoy contrives to make this unnecessary bow to precedent as cynical as possible. Good shot...