Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraudulently obtaining $300,000 worth of the institution's certificates of deposit, a Buncombe County judge sentenced Luke Sr. to from six to ten years in prison, Luke Jr. to from two to six years or a $25,000 fine. Still loudly protesting their innocence the Leas fled over the mountains to Clarksville, in their native Tennessee. There they directed their Nashville Tennessean by telephone, played golf, maintained that "if a crime had been committed, they were not in North Carolina at the time...
...humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded man, to ask hospitality of aliens, to finagle with outlandish courts and people, to flee on a scummy little freighter, to lie in shabby hotels, and finally to be cornered in a common jail...
...Your return to the Reich is no longer a question of parliamentary or party support but of the will of 66,000,000 people, finally united and standing beside and behind you. No measures of force or despotism can separate us." He denounced the "separatist traitors" who had fled from Germany to the Saar to escape the Nazis. He stormed and pleaded for Nazidom's case: ''Our winter relief campaign has proved we are pursuing practical Christianity, and we therefore are justified in checking attempts of the Church to meddle in politics." He promised that if Germany...
...daughters, Yahya the Imam kidnapped his sheiks' children and held them as hostages. The latest dispute over the unmapped boundary between Yemen and Asir has been going on for two years, complicated by the fact that last year the Idrissi of Asir, repenting his surrender to Ibn Saud, fled over the border to join Yahya the Imam...
Meanwhile muffled Bedouin riflemen, deserting the Imam's army, broke into the bazaars of Hodeida and looted lustily. About 300 foreigners were in the city, mostly British Indians. Before the Saudite troops entered, the greater portion had fled to the nearby island of Kamaran. With the victorious troops in Hodeida, the Emir Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward...