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Last October Chicago discovered that in the three previous months more of its automobiles had been stolen than new cars registered. For the full year there were 34,246 auto thefts in Cook County (Chicago and environs)-nearly 100 a day. Last week as the Illinois Legislature talked of repealing a stringent new anti-theft law (reason: it might cost money to enforce it) Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Auto-Thefts, Inc. | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...series of shocking murders is being perpetrated in London. Victims all appear to be members of a Scarlet Ring (instead of Mormon Elders), an organization which is liquidating a wholesale theft of jewels from the Imperial Chinese coffers. Victim to pay attention to is No. 3, a certain Captain Pyke. When a body is pulled out of the Thames, his wife (Anna May Wong) identifies it as her husband because of a peculiar ring the corpse is wearing. The diligently-coached Chinese-American actress remarks, in fact, with almost perfect aplomb: "It was an ancient heirloom belonging to my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...last week and journey 86 mi. south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Arrests-of-the-Week | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Frank Preston Parish, cocky young promoter, was indicted for theft last week because he refused to turn over collateral put up by his Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. for a loan from a big stockholder. The collateral: bonds, promissory notes, "130 pieces of paper valued at ? each" -presumably shares in receivershipped Mo-Kan. Indicted early last year on a $35,000,000 Federal mail fraud charge. Promoter Parish in 1931 bought the old Presidential steam yacht Mayflower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Troubles | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...theatrical reporter, Ward Morehouse. this picture exhibits Manhattan's largest pleasance. not as an outdoor nursery for perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till of an unemployment benefit. Her young man (Wallace Ford) finds out about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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