Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplanes, radio cars and volunteer posses scouring the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming countryside in a hunt for the kidnappers. Meanwhile Denver, stroked its chin over reports of the young broker's slowness in paying large gambling debts. Declared the Rocky Mountain News: "The story of the victim is to say the least unusual. . . . Certainly many aspects of the case need clearing...
...paradoxically, was the birthplace of Walter Fisher's aristocratic civic reform, the home of the berserk Municipal Voters' League, and the zealots of "efficient government." But she will probably choose to return, after a sudden and dizzy eminence of virtue, to her comfortable post-war role of the protesting victim. For sixty years Chicago has been a great, a wealthy, and a powerful city. And for almost sixty years her industrious citizenry has submitted to the control of an incredibly arrogant, mendacious, and corrupt chain of municipal dynasties. Her example, although not solitary, serves to bring the issues into sharp...
...Rules of Murder: A prosecutor, chosen at random, is sent from the room. Cards are dealt face down to the other players, the one receiving the Queen of Spades becoming the murderer. All lights are extinguished. The murderer must find a victim, throttle it. The victim screams. After the scream the murderer may take only four steps, other players must stand in their tracks. All players must answer the Prosecutor truthfully except the murderer who may lie freely. The Prosecutor may openly accuse only one suspect...
Owen D. Young retold the story of General Electric's Insull loans, of his efforts to bring about a standstill agreement among banks that were owed $80,000,000 by the Insull companies (TIME, April 18). Mused he: "I think Samuel Insull was very largely the victim of the complicated structure that he created. Capable though he was, he was unable to comprehend all the ramifications of that complicated structure. I think it is impossible for any one to get an accurate picture of the Insull setup, and I remember the feeling of helplessness that came over me when...
GENIUS IN MURDER-E. R. Punshon- Houghton, Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard finds the victim in his own tomb, the missing pearls on a dewy bush, the culprit bleeding...