Word: bandits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answers is that we Americans are neutral and, therefore, need do nothing whatever about it. If that were proposed as an explanation of why one did nothing when he saw women and children tortured by fire, or a passerby of whom he had no knowledge, being assaulted by a bandit within plain sight, we should have but one comment to make and that comment would not be very flattering...
...alarm was sent in when the others arrived. The vice-President and Treasurer of the trust company, Phippen, who happened to be outside the building, let the police in. By this time a crowd of 50 people had gathered outside expecting to see a hand-cuffed bandit brought forth...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the little brown bandit who ruled the Dominican Republic as President from 1930 to 1938. He then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
...future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...
Wealthy Chinese as well as foreign traders in China have long realized that the safest haven for their transferable riches-jewels, antiques, gold and silver objects, foreign bonds, foreign money-was in the foreign-held concessions and International Settlements, where neither Chinese bandit nor Japanese invader could get at them. In their invasion of China the Japanese have found precious little loot with which to finance their war. Before they retreated the Chinese were careful to strip their cities of wealth, and what they could not take westward with them they hastily deposited in the foreign-controlled zones...