Word: ransomes
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...mysterious millionaire-but the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has made Galvin a conversation piece again. It filed liens against his California property for $21,261,818 for back taxes-the largest lien against an individual in IRS memory. The Government says John Galvin owes that rajah's ransom for taxes unpaid be tween the years 1954 and 1957. Calvin's California lawyer says he owes nothing...
...footnote appended to your story concerning the death of Abd el Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman named Varley. As a matter of fact it was the brainchild of E. M. ("Eddie") Hood, one of the most revered members of the Washington staff of the Associated Press, Hood was assigned to the State Department many years and because of his knowledge and personality became the confidant of each...
...years earlier had earned his own footnote in history. He kidnaped a U.S. citizen named Perdicaris in May 1904 and held him for ransom, thus touching off President Theodore Roosevelt's ringing ultimatum a month later to the Sultan of Morocco: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead...
What scares me about that $53 million ransom for the Bay of Pigs prisoners [Jan. 11] is not that Castro blackmailed the U.S. Government, but that the U.S. Government blackmailed U.S. corporations into "donating" the $53 million...
...order originated with Kennedy Administration staffers managing the ransom operation, and was delivered to the released prisoners, after they had boarded aircraft bound for the U.S., by men who had been freed from Cuban prisons earlier...