Word: kidnaper
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal in 1928 to add to his Nashville Tennesseans (morning and evening); also...
...insurance policy (adopted also by other surety companies) provides against losses through kidnaping robberies. Robber-kidnapers go to the home of the bank cashier, or other official, compel him to accompany them to the bank, to open the safe for them when the time-lock runs out. By the payment of a small extra premium, banks and businesses can protect themselves from such kidnap losses. National Surety Co. also wrote last week a suicide policy, said to be the first of its kind. A manufacturer (unspecified) wished to borrow $25,000 from his bank. As the business depended largely upon...