Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, the party chosen to board the Coolidge Special for Brule grew to 60, to 80, to 90. The total number included newsgatherers and camera men, but did not account for Rob Roy (white collie), Terrible Tim (red chow), Diana (white collie), Bessie (yellow collie), King Cole (black police dog) and the five White House canaries, all of whom were going...
...editors, Raymond E. ("Spike") Delaney,* had been a police reporter on the Bridgeport Telegram. He would rob a house and return to police headquarters, hear of the same robbery, cover the story. He would re-enter the house through the front door, give the policeman suggestions concerning the crime, return to his typewriter and write a florid story. He was a good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost...
...When he was U. S. Attorney General (1921-24), Harry Micajah Daugherty had the statute of limitations extended from three to six years for the avowed purpose of prosecuting war frauds. The purpose of Senator Walsh's revision was to rob Milton T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall, of the excuse upon which he escaped testifying in the Fall-Sinclair oil lease trials. If immune to prosecution for anything he did more than three years ago, Mr. Everhart cannot again plead fear of selfincrimination; must tell about some suspicious Liberty Bonds he handled in 1922 during...
...even a liberal allowance of extraneous matter is not sufficient to rob the picture of its real power and forcefulness. The photography is remarkable and the pictured duels in the air are things to be seen and not described. These parts of the picture are what has made it justly famous...
...press conference the President said he had had "something of importance" to tell, but that he had forgotten what it was. Instead of becoming annoyed with himself, he laughed and took Rob Roy (white collie) out for a walk...