Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey City vault last week, detectives and ferreting lawyers discovered a cache of paintings, books, and silverware valued at $100,000, which squirrely friends of the late Ivar Kreuger had attempted to hide from the legal creditors of his estate. Still missing is a collection of 300 etchings supposed to be worth...
...BANK VAULT MYSTERY-Louis F. Booth-Dodd, Mead ($2). $180,000 in cash snatched under the nose of the bank manager-two murders later...
...friends," began the easy Rooseveltian voice in countless homes, ". . . when you deposit money in a bank, the bank does not put the money into a safe deposit vault. It invests your money, puts it to work. . .. What, then, happened? There was a general rush so great that the soundest banks could not get enough currency to meet the demand. ... It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nationwide bank holiday. . . . The second step was the legislation promptly and patriotically passed by Congress confirming my proclamation and broadening my powers...
...Cambridge side, Oscar Sutermeister '32 came in second in the 100-yard dash. Sutermeister won the pole vault by clearing the bar at 11 feet, 9 inches. He then secured permission to make a special try and vaulted 12 feet, 7 inches to set a new inter-varsity record. Four other Americans also scored...
...secure seclusion, but at the sacrifice of the convenience of the ordinary work-desk of the other Houses. The selection of books shows the predominance of tutors in the fields of Economics, English, Romance Languages, and Biology in the House. In the cellar of Hicks house a massive vault protects rare books such as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer from the layman, and in turn the vault protects the layman from such naughty literature as the Limericks of Norman Douglas...