Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of Dartmouth wags had a bright idea Friday. They were going to kidnap one Jawaharlal Nehru while he was visiting Harvard, and spirit him off to a suburban hideaway. Then, on Saturday, they planned to introduce him to an admiring Stadium throng as Prime Minister of the (Dartmouth) Indians...
...testify in the Teapot Dome trials. All failed. Meanwhile French newspapers, which described him as a multi-millionaire oil king, generated waves of rumor about him-that he had sneaked back to the U.S. as a member of a steamship's crew, that U.S. authorities had tried to kidnap him at the order of President Coolidge...
Thrill-Murderer Nathan Leopold, 44, who has served 25 years of a 99-year sentence for the kidnap-killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks back in 1924 (Partner Richard Loeb was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936), got a reward for his volunteer guinea-pig service in wartime malaria experiments: commutation of his term to 85 years (making him eligible to apply for a parole in January...
...employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic energy for private profit. But a Congressman's rabble-rousing speech sickens him, sends him back to unhampered research behind university walls...
...kidnap-murder of ten-year-old Charles Mattson in Tacoma, Wash.; the 1938 kidnap-murder of twelve-year-old Peter Levine in New Rochelle...