Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overnight last week, all this evidence as to the mind, character, instincts and aspirations of Richard H. Crowe lost its validity, and he became a stranger to all who knew him best. The National City discovered that $883,660-the largest sum ever stolen from a Manhattan bank-was missing from a vault at the branch bank...
...Criminal Mind. In Detroit, police warned citizens to watch their step: someone had stolen seventeen 150-lb. manhole covers...
...called the International Boxing Club. It sounded good to Joe. Last week, the three partners met again at Norris' home in Coral Gables, Fla. and came to a gentlemen's agreement. Despite Mike Jacobs' brave words and innate wariness, it looked like Wirtz & Co. had stolen a long lead. After nearly 35 years, control of heavyweight boxing might shift from Manhattan to the Midwest and there might be heavyweight title fights in Cleveland and Chicago for a change. But nobody knew how long it would be before the New York State Boxing Commission and the rest...
Less than a moment before, John Stevenson had stolen the ball from Yale's John Roche and pitched in a one handed shot to put his team ahead 54 to 53. Then Yale took a 55 to 54 lead with about 40 seconds to go and until Downey's eleventh hour shot it looked like Yale would take the see-saw battle...
...Tragic Hunt" begins with some money being delivered by a government agent to a farming village in order that it may pay for harvesting equipment and rent. The money is stolen by a gang of desperate, unemployed Italians, one of whom happens to be a veteran of a German prison camp. The remainder of the film deals with the citizens' chase after the robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease...