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...desk drawers. These are the first places a professional office thief looks." A female Washington employee of Air France was robbed twice in one day. Purses, wallets, postage stamps and petty cash are fair game, with office machines and TV sets running a bulky second. Occasionally, of course, the theft is an inside job, though most experts believe that the kleptomaniac junior exec and the light-fingered charwoman (a much-maligned breed) are the exceptions. Guido Mattei, Chicago manager of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, says: "Sneak thieves do a thorough job of hitting downtown office buildings...
...display of myopic ineptitude on the part of Los Angeles officialdom. With the newspapers playing the story for laughs-it was a case of "abducktion," one paper said-the machinery of justice clanked ponderously into motion. Officials decided that Lopez and his friends would be tried on charges of theft. Lawyers solemnly prepared briefs, detectives determinedly interrogated witnesses. Until the very end, nobody in the city government who was involved in the case seemed capable of seeing that what was called for was not mechanical law enforcement but compassion and common sense...
...white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people ... In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand...
...Blooded Socialism. Hoiles, reports one Texas merchant after a long diet of the local Hoiles paper, is "against every damned thing on earth." In his papers, he has attacked Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers as too leftwing, called all taxes "the theft of wages." argued that fire departments, public libraries, highways, and even the armed forces ought to be maintained strictly by voluntary contributions. His most splenetic outbursts are reserved for the public school system. When teachers try to argue with him, he snaps, "How can an inmate of a house of prostitution discuss chastity...
Another problem would be the increases that would be needed in security precautions. The later Widener stays open, the greater the chances of theft or some other incident, he said...