Word: ransomes
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...feel in a vile temper with the fools. They probably will want an extortionate ransom, but please don't bust yourselves...
...Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...miles from Newchang, that she was well treated, but needed food. It was a great chance for Japanese authorities to show how much they are needed in Manchuria. The British Consul General in Mukden and Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Muto held several conferences, finally decided to pay a ransom. Meanwhile Mrs. Pawley's father received a note from kidnapped Mr. Corkran...
Came no intermediary but a letter from the bandits breathing purest Chinese patriotism. "We will return Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran free" they wrote "on condition that Japan first returns Manchuria to China, otherwise we demand a ransom of $1,000,000 gold...
...heart of all executive agencies, President Hoover turned to Detroit, picked breezy, bustling, ambitious Roy Dikeman Chapin, board chairman of Hudson Motor Car Co. Long have Mr. Chapin's friends known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became its president in 1910, board chairman...