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...exploits are legendary. It is said that he once entered the headquarters of a robber chief, sat down and simply glared at the chief until he bowed, apologized and handed the loot to Toyama, who returned it to the owners. He made a fortune by borrowing huge sums and then paid his debts by selling coal mines he had acquired by political wangling-all to prove how easy it was to acquire riches. He then retired to poverty and his small wooden house...
...intellectuals felt thoroughly at home in the chaos and misery of the '30s. Fundamentally benevolent and humane, they loved their fellow countrymen in distress far more than they could ever love them in prosperity. And they particularly enjoyed life when applause began to greet their berating of the robber barons, president makers, economic royalists, malefactors of great wealth...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...
...unhappy love affair. Said he, "I am experiencing more poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...
...Freedom, partly incorporated in the New Deal. It is for Roosevelt I, the subject of the first half of the book, that Josephson reserves his more withering disapproval. Irked by T. R.'s nationalism and strong foreign policy, unable to call him either politico or robber baron, Josephson calls him an aristocratic bureaucrat, backs it up by statements of aristocrats at the Habsburg court...