Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trustworthy TIME is grievously in error when it intimates that Arthur Maillefert was done to death in a Florida "sweat-box"' for the petty crime of "stealing $30" (TIME, Oct. 24, "March of Time...
...Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama's Supreme Court had upheld the verdict of the lower bench. Gratified were Liberals when the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion. Seven-to-two it decided that the Scottsboro Negroes, "young, illiterate, ignorant...
...newshawk is prepared to snap the unexpected. Also he has a distinct advantage of entreé. A hostile subject who has thawed to a reporter's interview may let him snap a picture, although he would freeze again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter in. As Jack Price says: "Nowadays a reporter can still carry his cane and have a camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures of news...
...blow my breath all over the Senators until they pass laws to allow the growers to make money." Nominee McAdoo's theme song: "Send me to Washington. I'll guarantee I won't need someone to show me the ropes." Nominee Tubbs took a soap box away from a critical orator, harangued a street crowd on the virtues of his own public record...
...depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair's control of his craft is sure enough to permit him an almost improvisatory lightness in places without the slightest detriment to the narrative, and the consistent use of tinsel scenery, paper flowers, and music box accompaniment is quite in keeping with the fantasy of the whole...