Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports were broadcast last night that members of the Yale Record, in retaliation for the theft of the Bulldog were plotting to kidnap Hanfstaengl on his way to Cambridge.Cut Courtesy of the Boston Post.Nazi Official In 1909 and Today...
...prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought his first pair of shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized in 1932 when he refused to pardon famed Convict Tom Mooney, and in 1933 when he declared he would pardon the lynchers of the kidnap-murderers of Brooke Hart if they were arrested (TIME, Dec. 4). Frank F. Merriam succeeds him as Governor...
...death penalty for kidnappers was regarded as especially important. In future a seven-day disappearance will be presumptive evidence that a kidnap victim has been transported across a state line, thus authorizing Federal agents to enter the case...
...legislation makes it a Federal offense to: 1) send ransom notes or kidnap threats across state lines; 2) kill or assault Federal officers on duty; 3) flee across state lines to avoid prosecution for a felony or testifying in a criminal case. The new laws likewise authorize the death penalty for kidnappers who fail to return their victims unharmed...
...France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina boys. He fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, won a Distinguished Service Medal and in December 1918 led a party of hotheads into neutral Holland, in a fantastic but futile attempt to kidnap Kaiser William II for "a Christmas present for President Wilson...