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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southampton, England, last month reported a "$500,000 mail robbery" from sacks ferried abroad in the Leviathan. The ship was detained at Southampton during a long investigation. Not until last week did she get back to Manhattan. By that time the Leviathan robbery had shriveled to some $10,000 worth of valuables actually removed from some 1,300 registered letters. The thieving had apparently been done after the Leviathan docked at Southampton. Suspicion attached to a British member of the crew...
...line the Ontario shoreline and load up U. S. rum-runners. Diplomatic pressure, probably, was what drove the bung in last week, when the Ontario Liquor Control Board seized $5,000,000 of beer and whiskies in two warehouses at Windsor. Thirty other storage plants with $50,000,000 worth of goods were threatened...
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist husband of Singer Alma Gluck, had a reunion last week with his favorite violin-a rare 18th century Cremona, made by famed Guadagnini, worth some $25,000. The instrument was stolen a year ago from Mr. Zimbalist's dressing room in a Los Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago...
Bull. For four years, Wall Street has been noisier than ever before in its history. It has seen a stream of gold pouring in from abroad. Between 1923 and 1928, the U. S. exported gold worth $500,000,000, but imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support...
...most successful young business woman. Her shop, the Betty Hanna, numbers many a patron of wealth and distinction. Great was the distress, therefore, of fashionable Washington when it learned, last week, that Mrs. Richard Porter Davidson, alias shopkeeper Betty Hanna, had been robbed of jewels worth $20,000. Her Negro gardener was suspected...