Word: trove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasure Trove. Standard plot for thrillers since Treasure Island is two bitterly hostile groups of adventurers competing to discover and carry off a fabulous hoard of pirate treasure. Such was the plot which Representative O'Connor's House Rules Committee and Senator Hugo La Fayette Black's Senate Lobby Investigating Committee were playing, with the testimony of Howard Colwell Hopson as the Treasure Trove. The steps by which the ambitious rivals reached their present state of front page enmity...
...assets, he believes, are his Castle Famine and a motley handful of loyal bog-trotters. There are tales that the castle is the hiding place of treasure, but he does not take them seriously until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount-Michael (Lucy Monroe), whose sympathies are with' James. The gallant Irishman thereupon changes sides...