Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Hyam Greenbaum, Musical Director of London's British Broadcasting Corporation's Television Orchestra, was acquitted at Bow Street Police Court on a charge of having stolen two books from Charing Cross bookshops. First steal: "Days of Hope'' (price 6/6); second steal: a book on Leonardo da Vinci (price 8/6). Witnesses supporting Conductor Greenbaum came near constituting a Who's Who of London's musical world...
...headquarters. They declared: "It is our understanding that we are to be brutally beaten and maimed, if not killed." In Manhattan, Comrade Lovestone complained to police that "Stalinist agents, under the direction of special experts of the Russian G. P. U.," had burglarized his apartment and stolen documents which later showed up in Detroit and in the Communist Daily Worker. Oblivious to their neglected Ford organization drive, to the disruption sure to accompany further war, the feudists this week proceeded toward a special convention and an attempt by the ousted rebels to oust Homer Martin. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis grimly...
Theft In Sacramento, Calif., A. Nelson reported to police that during the night someone had stolen his merry-go-round...
...Gioconda was stolen from the Louvre and her smile disappeared from the world for three years. The painting was recovered in Italy through a dealer, returned to France...