Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batista itched to get out of the Dominican Republic almost from the day he hit there last January. A subdued and indifferent man desiring only to enjoy the $40 million plus that he stole from Cuba, Batista instead found himself sucked into anti-Castro plots by Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. A Cuban general named Jose Eleuterio Pedraza (who urged Batista to stay in Cuba and fight instead of fleeing) became Trujillo's favorite, put the bite on Batista for arms money. When Batista dragged his feet, he came in for scathing attacks in Trujillo's press (BATISTA SHOULD...
...profits. Gestapo informers, who insisted on hard currency for their work outside Germany, also got paid off in the phony pounds. Among those doublecrossed: the Italians who found out where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned up in England. But only after duplications cropped up in serial numbers did the British realize what was happening...
Trick Count. The U.S. delegation of 630 was a mishmash of the devout (including Paul Robeson Jr.), the trusting, and the curious. There was also a cadre of professionally coached antiCommunists, including a young American scientist, J. A. Ransahoff, who at a party-line seminar on the atom stole the Red thunder with a facts-and-figures presentation of the U.S. program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...hilly Santa Teresa district, a chauffeured Oldsmobile last week pulled up to a modern apartment building. As a pudgy, genial-looking man stepped out, English-speaking Brazilian Detective Sadoc Reis called out: "Hi, Lowell." "Fine," replied Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, wanted in Manhattan on charges that he stole stock worth $14 million from two U.S. companies (TIME. July...
...Smoke. In Chicago, Attorneys Samuel Starr and Bernard Kaufman paid a private detective $40 to find out who stole the cigar butts they left outside in the corridor when they went into the courtroom...