Word: bandits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Jacob Steinger, 62, was napping in his son's office when a bandit entered, robbed Son Louis, a doctor, of $71. "Watch out, pop!" shouted Son Louis. Father Jacob awoke, jumped on the bandit, sunk his teeth into the bandit's gun hand, received a bullet in his shoulder. The bandit shrieked, dropped his gun. Then Father Jacob shot him in the back...
Jesse E. James and Jessie E. James, son and granddaughter of the late famed Missouri bandit, filed an $80,400 suit against Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky. Allegation: Paramount agreed to let the Jameses help them cinematize Bandit James's life, then backed out. Said Jessie: "They wanted me to get arrested for speeding, resist the officer, and draw a gun on him so they could broadcast the story Jesse James's granddaughter stuck up a policeman...
...fortunes of the Chinese Nationalist government, teetering dangerously for months, swung high again last week. The so-called bandit-communist armies that have menaced all government in the central provinces were comparatively quiescent. Torrential floods which have interrupted military operations against the northern leaders, subsided. Nationalist military despatches proudly announced 20 battles in one week. Best of all. Nationalist troops captured Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in a pitched battle. Northern troops fled back toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling...
...Martin, British Consul at Foochow, sailed up the Min River last week with $50,000 in a satchel and a sharp note for one Lu Sing-pan, bandit chief. Earlier in the week the Misses Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Harrison, members of the British Church Missionary Society, were fleeing from the district of Changsha, which was captured and looted fortnight ago by bandit-Communist troops (TIME...