Word: robber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changed man. You won't have any trouble from me," said affable Bank Robber Theodore (Teddy) Green, 41, to Federal Prisons Director James Bennett, after an unsuccessful 1955 breakout attempt from a Massachusetts penitentiary* had led to his transfer to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Last week a report sent by Bennett to Attorney General Herbert Brownell showed that Green has not changed at all: he had been caught organizing a major escape from The Rock. In the prison's history there have been only eleven major escape attempts, none successful...
Your April 1 article on the Rev. Robert Gingery, the Methodist minister who killed the bank robber, says he "made his peace with God and with the Fifth Commandment." I think you have your commandments mixed, as the Fifth is "Honor thy father and thy mother." I think you should have said Sixth, which says "Thou shalt not kill...
...their real-business in their hats." All are said to have "vision" and "an ability to size up men." All but one were "personally trained or taught by their fathers, when they first entered the world of real money." Most of them freely spread their wealth; none is a robber baron...
Shakily, the survivor of the gun battle picked up the radio microphone and called State Police headquarters: "This is the Rev. Mr. Gingery. Marvin is shot. I have killed the bank robber...
...Industrial Revolution turned the peasantry into the proletariat, working the "dark Satanic mills," and Karl Marx predicted that eventually the middle class would be forced into the faceless proletariat, too. During the '305 it seemed to some that Marx had been right, and the myth of robber barons engaged in snatching bread from the mouths of the poor was in the back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little...