Word: robber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROBBER BARONS-Matthew Josephson- Harcourt, Brace ($3). The roots of any family tree, of any aristocracy, are planted in the dirt. But the humble or scandalous beginnings of an old family, a settled society, are well covered. Not so the great names of U. S. plutocracy, whose mightiest growths are a matter of two or three generations, their naked progress still quite perceptible to the curious eye. And one by one these financial giants have had their share of homage and vituperation. Author Josephson comes neither to bury nor praise them; as observer of U. S. history, he thinks...
...tourist camp police picked up tall, scholarly Harry Pierpont (jailbreaker & murderer) who went with them meekly, suddenly pulled two guns when they tried to handcuff him, was subdued. In a radio store they picked up Charles Makley (jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...
...Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials, is especially proud of his alias Stalin, meaning "Steel...
...Arsene Lupin" when it appeared two years ago was one of the first movies in which two male stars appeared together. John and Lionel Barrymore in one of their best performances are pitted against each other as the gentleman jewel robber, Arsene Lupin, and the chief of the Paris detective forces. Lupin's crowning coup is the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Lionel, frustrated time and again, snorts, stamps, and raves superbly...
Early last year three robbers entered the Manhattan apartment of Hairnet Maker Harry C. Glemby, bound him, his wife, daughter and two servants with wires, escaped with Mrs. Glemby's jewelry, valued at $349,000. Early this year robbers broke into the home of Mrs. Isaac Keller, mother of Harry Glemby, stole $50,000 in jewelry. Last April, as clerks of the Glemby company entered an elevator with a $1,349 payroll, two men held them up, made the operator take the elevator up while they escaped with the money. Last week a single robber entered the Atlantic City...