Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minister of State: Louis Jacquinot, 59, an Independent (conservative), former Minister of the Navy. Angry critic of the parliamentary "gravediggers of our Empire," whom he blamed for the loss of Indo-China, Tunisia. Morocco, Jacquinot also charged that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were "in league" to rob France of North Africa. A longtime bachelor, he married a wealthy widow five years ago at the time of his unsuccessful bid to become President of France...
Playing number two, Perry Driggs defeated Columbia, 7-6, and halved on the last hole with Penn's Rob Roy, one up. Frank Dodge shot par on the nineteenth to defeat Penn, one up, and took his match from Columbia...
...telephone circuits with the heaviest traffic since V-J day. District court was recessed. Business firms booked downtown hotel rooms for employees who worked late. The governor mobilized National Guardsmen to stand watch at the National Bank of Commerce when reports got around that Starkweather intended to rob it. Sheriff Merle Karnopp called for a posse, and 100 men armed with deer rifles, shotguns and pistols were soon milling around his office in the white Victorian Lancaster County courthouse...
House Broken. In Detroit, police said that Freddie Washington smashed a rear window in trying to rob a bar, found himself locked in the washroom, climbed out and ran home for a chisel, screwdriver and knife, went back in the same window, broke into the bar, returned to the washroom, where he was still hiding when police arrived...
...beating of Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany, in Amsterdam late Tuesday night was apparently not so serious as indicated by earlier reports. Dutch police have arrested a 25-year old metal-worker for assault in his attempt to rob Barghoorn...