Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That theft should be punished by a state, Mr. Beck heartily agreed, but that a theft could become a Federal crime because the object stolen had been in possession of a Federal licensee, he vigorously denied. Thereupon Fred Hastings, Jed Earner and Bale No. 407784 were forgotten. For the question of the Federal Government's licensing powers-on which rest AAA's marketing agreements, the Potato Control Act and many another New Deal project-had been raised. The debate was taken out of the hands of Mr. Beck and his opponent, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan...
Raymond E. Helie, of Cambridge, convicted of theft of silverware from Adams House was given a year's suspended sentence and banned from Massachusetts yesterday. Helie was captured in Providence, and several pieces of silver were found on his person. The Harvard initials on the silver had been filed down and replaced with the thief...
During the last year his office has been confronted with an epidemic of theft, resulting in several arrests. The latest case which came to office was the Dunster House Assault Case which is now in the hands of the Cambridge Police. Much of the present investigation rests on his preliminary work...
...been her lover. To Weston Liggett. branch manager of a tool manufacturing company, father of two daughters and husband of an unloved Boston girl. Gloria was one of a succession of casual and some-times painful affairs. Increasingly attracted to her. he never understood her, was shocked at her theft. When (hey quarreled about it in a speakeasy Weston got into a fight, was badly beaten up, stumbled home to disgrace his wife. Arrangements were under way for a divorce when he hunted for Gloria, found her at last on a dingy Boston boat, in time to quarrel with...
...Glum and nostalgic, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, 73, observed: "Theft, assault, kidnapping, murder, follow each other with tragic frequency. These acts are all done by men and women who have been pupils in our schools and many of them pupils in our colleges as well. . . . It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality with a genius for impressing himself upon the group of pupils of various ages and stages of advancement which...