Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book was written in June was set up in type and will be published next Fall by Houghton Miflin in a series of books for boys with Harvard as a background. He was unwilling to stretch the coincidence too far yesterday but said that gold and jade were stolen in his story also...
Since museum authorities were unavailable over the weekend, there has as yet been no definite information as to just what was stolen. Lauriston Ward and Frank Orchard, assistant curators, declared, however, that some of the objects taken were "priceless...
...deposits in Los Angeles' Guaranty Building and Loan Association in 1930, find it difficult to forget the name of the Guaranty's former secretary and general manager, one Gilbert H. Beesemyer. Seven years ago, they and 24,000 other Guaranty depositors discovered that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some 30 have committed suicide. With the help of Depression, Guaranty's original...
...delayed, apparently had other troubles to contend with. All week he kept the French and Portuguese frontiers tight shut, but rumors continued to leak through: A "vast conspiracy by foreign elements" had threatened the lives of Franco & several of his officers and a large amount of cash had been stolen from the Rightist treasury at Salamanca...
...Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels are stolen. Clarendon grabs the throne. London burns. The feminine plebs, weary of the Duke of Clarendon's despotism, picket him with ribald signs: Unfair to Organized Love; We Want Charles; Want Him BAD. Charles is restored and the "semi-opera" ends with the cast singing, as usual, Old Nassau...