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James and John McNamara were ar rested. Labor organized in their defense, $250,000 was raised, charges of frame-up roared through innumerable demonstrations, Clarence Darrow was rushed to Los Angeles to defend them, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens busied himself trying to work out a compromise. Suddenly, on Dec. 1, 1911, James McNamara confessed. It was the greatest moral shock in U. S. labor history. A thin-faced, impassioned man, with intense blue eyes and a Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle...
...office, runs an emotional gamut from the romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could an ar ray of costumes ? from a trig purple suit to a sequined man-killer? that had Designer Hattie Carnegie's telephone ringing constantly on the morning after the opening. Once, in changing costumes, Gertie does the next thing to a striptease' exposing herself in a cobwebby black lace slip. Naturally...
Fitzgerald, in fact, was the sole author of his own dilemmas. He was the last survivor of a generation that never grew up-or rather of its period of hectic ar rested development. This period he had fixed memorably in a series of remarkable prose movies: This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young...
...then the "campaign labeling all Rumanian criminals as Communists," then the "general unfriendly Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region of Odessa was under martial law, sent Rumanians from the Moldavian borderland fleeing into the interior. Jews, attempting to flee maraud ing Iron Guardists, were for the first time turned back when they tried to enter Soviet...
Even after the defeat, Captain Brousse was still operating in high gear, getting no less than 10,000 litres of gasoline for the U. S. Embassy in Vichy when there was no gasoline, fighting correspondents' battles against the military censorship, ar ranging impossible interviews. He did not do so badly on his own behalf. Appointed press attache to the French Embassy in Washington last month, he went from Vichy to Paris, outshouted the Germans, returned with 23 trunkloads of belongings, put them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove...