Word: theft
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...Theft. In Denver, thieves broke into a theatre, swiped 41 pipes from the organ...
...issue of TIME I noted the article "FBI Scooped," pertaining to the recent theft of official records from the offices of the United States Civil Service Commission in Washington...
...have pointed out . . . the story in the Washington Times Herald was the first notice that the Civil Service Commission had of the theft of the records and, likewise, it was the first notice which the FBI had of this particular instance inasmuch as we have no jurisdiction whatsoever over the Civil Service Commission, nor is it the responsibility of the FBI to protect and safeguard the official records of that organization...
...only petty larceny I ever committed was the theft of a pocketful of peaches in Aitos, Bulgaria, in 1903. I was ten years old and hungry. In 1932 when I visited Bulgaria I expiated this crime by buying a cartful of peaches and distributing them to a dozen youngsters...
...Cambridge, Mass., J. O. Welch Co. reported the theft of a ton of fudge...