Word: theft
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...bootleg holes and abandoned mines from which 20,000 men and boys are openly stealing some $32,000,000 worth of anthracite coal per year from company-owned lands. In Pottsville, Mahanoy City and Shamokin he conferred with citizens and law officers whose frank acquiescence has made the gigantic theft possible (TIME, July...
...made II Duce's conquest of Ethiopia look like the proverbial theft of confections from an infant...
Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...
...crew was released at once. Charged with barratry (marine theft), the Brothers Orsborne were returned to England...
...bigger the lie, says Father Summers, the bigger the jiggle. This year Providence, R. I. police let him use the machine on a woman suspected of theft. When she denied committing the crime herself, the needle moved mildly. When she denied knowing who had committed it, the needle jumped. In court it was established that the woman actually was an accomplice...