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...ever faced a firing squad. First to do so was one Jaime Greinstein, a Polish ne'er-do-well, who rhapsodied before he died one sunrise last month, "The skies of Cuba blush." Last week one Jose Costiello Fuentes, an ordinary bandit who had killed a lieutenant from ambush, faced in manful silence four rifle barrels, died without a word. To frivolous murder Cubans are accustomed, but the legal and methodical execution of a criminal was last week profoundly shocking and disconcerting to all Cuba. Announced the Secretary of the Interior last week, "Senora O'Halloran fought bravely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Blushing Skies | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Best verse, Bright Ambush, by Audrey Wurdemann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...last year when, under the name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred of police. After he had killed Federal Agent W. Carter Baum during an ambush at the Little Bohemia roadhouse at Spider Lake, Wis. the Department of Justice marked him down for certain death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two for One | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...affair with Mrs. Kerr (Edna Best) before her marriage, attempts to revive it when they meet again. Captain Kerr finds out about this the evening he gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret as he gets into a lorry to go to jail for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...enthusiasm. Under Director Michael Curtiz, who took pains to get all the possible wear out of his sets, Edna Best does a commendable job in her first important cinema role. Good shot: a genial Irish bartender advising Captain Kerr to leave by the back door where he knows an ambush is in wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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