Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public zeal for suppression of crime is discounted because of our private willingness to defend any criminal for any offense. Of course not all lawyers accept criminal cases. We have a petty larceny bar and a grand larceny bar. Some will defend bandits who rob banks from the outside, and others will defend directors who rob them from the inside. Every Jack in crime has a Jill at the bar waiting to defend...
...cost of the bread loaf in the American home. It means taking vast sums of money in the way of pennies out of the homes of the poorer people for one of the necessities of life. It is another illustration of how powerful interests stealthily and persistently rob the common people...
...continually hounded by common folk insisting that he take their savings to invest. Sam didn't want to do it. He had planned on putting his own money into some power companies he thought of forming. But Sam knew that there were unscrupulous persons about all ready to rob the unwary investors and, friend of the common man that he was, he generously gave up the thought of investing his own money and instead accepted the people's money thereby enabling them to acquire pretty stock certificates they otherwise would not have had. But some...
They towed the car to Arcadia whence two ambulances carried the bodies to Dallas. Among Bonnie Parker's effects was a poem she had written, her own threnody: Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they...
...better get rid of Eddie Morris. He certainly raised a laugh from the crowd on Saturday when he announced the results of the 3200-metre run. Ruby Rob Playfair took the event and Charlie Woodard followed him into the finish...