Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whereabouts of doddering old Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was uncertain. Many Frenchmen were sure that he would be in Paris to meet the victorious Allies, if the Nazis did not kidnap him. But, a fortnight before, Petain had told diplomats still in Vichy: "Should it become known that I have left ... I wish to make it clear that I will not leave of my own volition...
...intermingled newspaper reminiscences and history of such Oriental affairs as the Japanese drug trade, together with a blow-by-blow account of how the Japanese tried to jam Alcott's anti-Japanese broadcasts from station XMHA in Shanghai. He was shot at and bombed; efforts were made to kidnap him and break his arms. One value of the story: recalling the days after 1937 in Shanghai, when the Japanese were abducting and decapitating Chinese journalists, and when gun fights between Japanese and Chinese terrorists were daily affairs that the news of impending war in Europe crowded out of even...
...advertising agency of Marduc, Syco & Sagg, who will not handle any patent medicine, liquor or contraceptive ads, caring for them "through a separate firm with which his name wasn't even connected." The Colonel's ambitious daughter would not hesitate to blackmail, double-cross or kidnap him. Cracks he to her: "You must have been bumming around with some new lover-maybe your husband...
Fidgety, canny Roger Touhy, 45, sentenced to 99 years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely...
What worried police and welfare workers most was a sharp rise in juvenile delinquency. Near Chicago, two boys held a farmer's family terrorized for several hours, threatening to kidnap their young daughter. San Franciscans were shocked by the story of two girls, 12 and 13, living in a downtown hotel with three members of an orchestra. This was only one incident: the city was crowded with girls and women, eager for the easy life of a port city, drawn by soldiers waiting for embarkation...