Word: ransomes
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...Shanghai, bandits broke all the Chinese traditions of kidnaping, abducted the hitherto-scorned girl babes of wealthy China merchants. The New Nationalist Government's recent decree, making daughters as well as sons heirs of their fathers, has also given them ransom value...
...platform sat solemn elders in deep mourning. The Liberal Civic League had called the meeting "In memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band played the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the crowd rose and cheered...
...high indignation, relatives of the kidnaped élite of Megntzu wired qualm-wracked Governor Hu, blamed him, demanded that he pay the ransom...
About the most certain thing in China, last week, was the kidnaping at Tientsin of one Aaron Brenner, 40-year-old Manhattan fur buyer, by bandits who asked $500.000 ransom...
...sake pay out this ransom...