Word: robs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge cat, scratched by an embattled squirrel on the White House lawn, was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital. Rob Roy, Mrs. Coolidge's white collie, was sent to the same hospital for skin treatment...
...December, George F. Willett, banker of Norwood, Mass., sued the Boston banking firms of F. S. Moseley & Co., Killer, Peabody & Co. and Robert F. Herrick, Boston lawyer, for $15,000,000. He claimed that these had conspired to rob his onetime firm, Willett, Sears & Co., of the control of two felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett...
...unknown man in an intexicated condition was caught late last night in an attempt to rob a third floor room at Dana Chambers. He was detected on the fire-escape by the Proctor, and lost consciousness immediately. When last heard from he was being carried to the police Station on a stretcher...
...Agrarian Party, because this political and social party is the one most identified with the present Government. . . . Fortunately, the truth, with an eloquence superior to intrigue and perversity, has demonstrated to all the world that Mrs. Evans was killed by three miserable criminals without any other reason than to rob her of the money which she carried and that justice will soon pronounce sentence...
...organized banking interests which own the railroads, control credit and dominate the industrial life of the nation, will further oppress labor, rob the consumer, and, by extortionate railroad rates and dictation of the terms of credit, reduce agriculture to the level of the European peasantry, if longer permitted to control this Government...