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...Fierce-Arrow plant at Buffalo two swank blue limousines were sent to Washington. Both were rated to do 110 m.p.h., both fitted throughout with bullet-proof glass, both had bodies armored with an invisible protection of bullet-proof steel plate. One was addressed to J. Edgar Hoover, chief bandit hunter of the Department of Justice, the other to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...republic, no Cuban civilian had 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...
...Union Station massacre in Kansas City, the unsuccessful attempt to arrest John Dillinger in his St. Paul apartment and finally the siege of the Little Bohemia roadhouse which, as reenacted in G Men, has very different consequences from the death of an agent and the escape of Bandit Dillinger. In G Men, Brick Davis and his companions surround a Wisconsin roadhouse in which the remnants of the Leggett gang are carousing with their women and shoot all of them except Brad Collins (Barton MacLane) whom Davis exterminates privately a few days later, trying to escape to Canada...
...Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
Spectators jammed the galleries, sat along the edge of the pool with sheets across their legs. Bobbe Arnst, onetime wife of Johnny Weissmuller, now married to a Chicago lawyer named Robert Cavenaugh but still interested in swimmers, arrived the opening night, foiled a bandit who tried to steal her sealskin coat when she was leaving. Signs were hung in the locker rooms to remind members of the Lake Shore Athletic Club what was going on: "Ladies in the Pool; Please Wear Suits." The meet - annual national A. A. U. indoor swimming championships for women-brought the Chicago Daily News Fresh...