Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks the jury had listened to the story of how the U. S. looked to a man who loved his Führer and thought the Jews were everywhere. They had heard how Fritz Kuhn had been arrested, not for his beliefs, but on a charge of forgery and theft from his own Bund. They heard young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking $717.02 to pay for the shipment of a woman's furniture-not his wife's. They heard the judge ask: "Was she your mistress...
...theft from Los Angeles' huge Guaranty Building and Loan Association, of which Beesemyer was general manager, had wrecked the company, swallowed up the stock of thousands, including Cinemactor Wallace Beery. Beesemyer was sent up for a 40-year term...
...theft . . . WANTED for murder . . . for kidnapping . . . for arson ADOLF HITLER
Inspector Hornleigh (Twentieth Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...
...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...