Word: robber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Roosevelt pardoned Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite who, convicted in 1930 of libeling a banker by addressing him as "a robber of widows and orphans," served a term in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Also pardoned was. his secretary. "Not only am I the only ex-convict in Congress," boasted Mr. Shoemaker, ''but I am the only man to emerge from the White House with two pardons as well...
...Kelso. Wash., Albert Seifert. bank robber, was shot in the back and captured by C. A. Button, bank president, while he was escaping with a sack of silver. But C. A. Button was not the hero, said Robber Seifert. It was P. E. Federson. the cashier. "He outsmarted me when he put so much silver into the sack ... so heavy I couldn't run with...
...convicts from holding office. The Minnesota State Constitution does. Shoemaker's seat is now being contested on the ground that his prison term lost him his citizenship. In 1930 a St. Paul judge gave him a suspended sentence for mailing a letter to a banker addressed "robber of orphans and widows." Shoemaker roundly criticized judge & sentence in his newspaper The Organized Farmer. The judge sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary for contempt of court. Last week in Congress Shoemaker charged that a "foreign power not overfriendly to the U. S." was backing Cuban revolutionaries in the U. S. He proposed...
...Cologne several Nazis were interrupted while robbing a wealthy old Jew by other Nazis who tore the brown shirts from the Robber Nazis backs, reminded them that Chancellor Hitler has commanded DISCIPLINE (TIME, March 20), restored the old Jew's property, had the shirtless Nazis expelled by local party officials and turned over to the police for what they were: burglars...
...TIME FOR MURDER-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). The curious Mr. Tolfree, a few seconds behind murder, snoops around busily until the killer-robber is found...