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According to the Boston Fireman's Band, marathoner Yun Bok Su wasn't the only foreigner to steal the local spotlight at Boston's Patriots Day celebrations. Traditional parade performers, the fireman's band smouldered with rage when the University music-makers got George Curley...
...headlines, Manhattan's newspapers fell all over each other belaboring the police for intrusion on the lives of two kindly, harmless people. Said the Daily News: "We find ourselves wishing the New York policemen would just sweep Langley's place up a little more, and then quietly steal away, maybe leaving a little bowl of milk for him, on his doorstep...
...Filipinos as well as allied nationals in Manila, groaning under the iron heels of the enemy, soon discovered that to lie, deceive or steal was the only way to survive. ... A sackful of Japanese "Mickey-Mouse" money often would not buy fish and rice to feed your starving wife and children. The only way out was to steal. Imperceptibly, insidiously, inevitably, a weakening of the moral fiber had to come about. Thus, even long after V-J day, we see the sad spectacle of a considerable number of Filipinos still finding it convenient and profitable to live by their wits...
...have helped mamma to steal a little kiddy from...
...Chapter XV, Article 25, Oklahoma Statutes of 1942, Sect. 1931, which says: "Every person who breaks and enters any building or any part of a building, room, booth, tent, railroad car, automobile, truck, trailer, vessel, or other structure or erection in which any property is kept, with intent to steal therein or to commit any felony, is guilty of burglary in the second degree...