Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Grant B. Miller, Chief U. S. Postal Inspector, who solved many a mail theft, including the $2,000,000 robbery at Rondout, Ill., in 1924 when Postal In spector William F. Fahy was revealed as the crime's "master-mind"; at Washing...
...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 19--Undergraduates of three of America's oldest and most famous universities are suspected in the theft during the Yale-Princeton game of the last remaining section of Yale's traditional fence, which for ever fifty years has served as a background for the official pictures of undergraduate Eli notables...
...Harvard yesterday, editors of the CRIMSON sought, without success to discover whether any group of undergraduates in the University could be connected with the theft. It was pointed out to them several times in the course of their investigation, that a Massachusetts 22-cense could hardly be considered proof that Harvard undergraduates were responsible for the removal of the fence, inasmuch as there are several hundred thousand automobiles bearing Massachusetts licenses...