Word: robber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoe-polish factory. "No words," he wrote 25 years later, "can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond...
...hand that plunges the latest rubber dagger into the heart of Hollywood belongs to no neophyte; Author Carson won the Academy Award in 1937 for coscripting A Star Is Born. But his novel has a chance for life only while Franklin P. Silversmith, his egomaniacal robber baron, struts over its sets...
WHEN the police pounced on Willie Sutton last winter, they found in his hideout a book entitled How to Think Ahead in Chess. In this way, some 8,000,000 U.S. chess players learned that Bank Robber Sutton was a member of their cold-eyed fraternity. They were not especially surprised. As devotees of one of the oldest and most intellectually satisfying games ever invented, they assume that chess appeals to every thinking man, whether he uses his talents to crack safes or split atoms. But most of these thinking men, from Einstein to Humphrey Bogart, are Patzers-a German...
...left flared up afresh over a special 60-page issue of the Nation called How Free Is Free? The issue reported on civil liberties in the U.S., found them desperately menaced from all sides. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. found the U.S. turning "spies into heroes"; Matthew (The Robber Barons) Josephson discovered "book-burning" in schools and libraries. Scientists, charged Harvard pinko Professor (of geology) Kirtley F. Mather, have been hard hit because they "are peculiarly vulnerable to suspicion, recrimination and punishment." In education, entertainment, publishing, advertising and other fields, Nation contributors all turned in similar gloomy reports...
...gone overseas in the A.E.F., studied at Dublin's Trinity College and come home again to Republican county politics. That year, T.R.'s ally, lean, aristocratic Gifford Pinchot, decided to run for governor of Pennsylvania. The great fighter for "conservation" against the heedless exploitation of the "robber barons" was Fine's political hero. Fine became Pinchot's state campaign manager...