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...insurance policy to cover an old racket, were last week announced by R. A. Algire, vice president of National Surety Co. ("We bond more people than any other company in the world.") In 1929, said Mr. Algire, surety companies collected 35 million dollars in premiums representing burglary, robbery and theft insurance to the amount of five billion dollars. New York State spent nine million and New York City $6,500,000 to buy crime insurance. Mr. Algire estimated that in 1930 the surety companies would pay out large claims, as he anticipated a "very substantial increase" in burglaries...
Dealer Phillips hurried to the express office, found in the case a big gilt frame with ragged edges of canvas where the painting had been torn out. There was no clue as to the time or place of the theft. Dealer Phillips said he believed it the work of a "novice or an expert in a great hurry...
Died. Grant B. Miller, Chief U. S. Postal Inspector, who solved many a mail theft, including the $2,000,000 robbery at Rondout, Ill., in 1924 when Postal In spector William F. Fahy was revealed as the crime's "master-mind"; at Washing...
...Yalemen it was obviously "another Harvard trick." Sure enough, six days after the theft, at a dinner given by the Harvard Lampoon (vitriolic, funny fortnightly) to members of the Yale Record (humorous magazine) at Cambridge, the Fence was miraculously revealed in the midst of the festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...