Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress passed a law, applying to all federal bodies and including congressional committees, which oper] ated on lines similar to the 1893 act. The | law was widely abused. In a debate on ; revising the act, Senator Lyman Trumbull j of Illinois said: "Here is a man who stole | $2,000,000 in bonds, if you please, out of i the Interior Department. What does he j do? He gets himself called as a witness before one of the investigating committees, -and testifies something in relation to that ; matter, and then he cannot be indicted...
...Paris' Grand Palais last week, 105 automakers from eight countries put their prize products on display in Europe's most lavish motorcar exhibit, the 40th Salon d'Automobile et du Cycle. While car prices ran as high as $14,000, it was the "baby cars" that stole the show...
...Whom It May Concern ... In Hailey, Idaho, the weekly Times carried this classified advertisement: "PERSONAL NOTICE: If the man who stole my wife at the celebration Monday will agree to pay her expenses, he is welcome to keep her as long as he can. But don't bring her back. E.K.S...
Identification. In Lafayette, Ind., thieves broke into a clothing store, stole $18 worth of boys' sport shirts, each emblazoned with the legend: "I'm a Little Stinker...
...Augie's simple-minded mother and her three sons, one an idiot, in a Chicago slum. The impoverished Jewish family lived on charity and the wits of Grandma Lausch, an imperious boarder who tried to teach Augie principles of good behavior. But Augie tailed along with neighborhood hoodlums, stole pennies from newsstands, quarters from a shop where he briefly worked, ladies' handbags in a planned robbery. While older brother Simon, out to get rich, was learning to knot a bow tie and be charming to ladies, Augie was working the angles at some very odd jobs (coifing dogs...