Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brunswick, N. J., while twelve salesmen of Colonial Life Insurance Co. were holding a "pep meeting," a robber entered an adjoining room, stole about...
...Millersburg, Ohio (pop. 2,203), Jesse Wynn, 51, and his brother William, 48, stole an old-fashioned ice box, sold it for $3. Brought before Common Pleas Judge Robert B. Putnam in the Holmes County court, they were given their choice of 30 days in jail or a public whipping of 20 lashes. They took the whipping...
...last week President Hoover stole the headlines from the Democrats and their pre-convention squabbles in Chicago. Before 9 a. m. a hurried call for news correspondents went out from the White House. At that early hour only a dozen second-string newshawks were rounded up.* They found the President standing behind his office desk, Secretary of State Stimson at his elbow. In a low, clipped voice the President began to read from a paper in his hand. The newsmen flipped out pencils and pads to jot down his words. He stopped reading to order: "Put away the pads...
...correspondent on the British front. Next he worked for the Chicago Tribune as "the world's worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway fare to go to work. From the vulgar Mirror Reporter Klein went to the patrician Evening Post where in the next four years his by-line became so familiar that in 1929 the American Press (trade-paper) thought it worthwhile...
Manoel, who claims to have the finest private library in the Portuguese language, deduced that "the thieves were evidently not Portuguese," from the fact that they stole no book...