Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional swindler and crony of Capone mobsters, was stopped as he drove away from a roadhouse by seven gunmen in a Duesenberg and two other cars. Twelve days later he reappeared in suburban La Grange, with a luxuriant beard and the story that Touhy and his mob had kidnaped him for $70,000 ransom. Tubbo Gilbert seconded the accusation, led the police investigation (along with the FBI's Melvin Purvis). Thomas J. Courtney, bright young state's attorney (now a Chicago circuit judge), directed the case of The People of the State of Illinois v. Roger Touhy...
Many people came to believe his story that he had been framed. Miller, an ex-policeman who had been Factor's bodyguard, switched his allegiance to Touhy when he found what he called positive evidence that the kidnap story was fraudulent. In a 1954 rehearing of the case, Federal Judge John P. Barnes pronounced the kidnaping a "hoax," ordered Touhy released (he was jailed again after 49 hours, when a higher court overruled Judge Barnes). Ray Brennan, a Chicago reporter, gave Roger a florid assist in writing his bitter memoirs, The Stolen Years (TIME, Nov. 30). In 1957 Illinois...
...also knew how to do favors for the powerful. In 1949 the daughter of Vice President Fernando Lopez divorced her American husband, who got custody of their two-year-old son. Lewin helped her kidnap the boy in New Mexico, make it to San Francisco after a breakneck car-and-plane chase, and eventually reach safety in Manila...
...afternoon, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Freers delivered a hot, factladen protest to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian reply did not deny any of the facts, instead announced that "competent authorities," presumably the same Kremlin officials who ordered the kidnap, found Langelle to be engaged in secret intelligence work, and therefore persona non grata. Langelle thus became the eleventh U.S. official to be kicked out of Russia since 1952, but the first to undergo third-degree preliminaries...
...South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, the U.N. Secretariat to George Washington's wattles. As the story begins. Adman Gary Grant has little on his mind but Trendex and his waistline (he reminds himself to "think thin") until enemy agents mistake him for a U.S. counterspy and kidnap him from a cocktail lounge in the Hotel Plaza. Spy Ringleader James Mason (as polished and heavy as a Kremlin banister) invites Grant to spill all he knows. But all the adman knows has long since been run up flagpoles...