Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film currently horrifying U. S. audiences is I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, taken from a successful autobiography of almost like title* written by Robert Elliott Burns. Last week the fugitive was a fugitive no longer. Author Burns was apprehended in Newark. He had been running a toy shop in East Orange. His arrest aroused national interest, stirred up two issues: a general one on the question of crime & punishment, a specific legal one between Georgia and New Jersey...
...enlisted in the 14th Engineers, served 21 months overseas. Home again, he found no work, drifted South. In Atlanta, one night in 1921, he and two flophouse companions held up and robbed a grocer of $5.80. Burns was sentenced to serve six-to-ten years in the Campbell County chain gang...
Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble...
...Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Warner). When he gets back from the War, Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) is too ambitious to go back to his old job in a shoe factory. He wants to be a construction engineer and sets out to look for a job. His luck is bad. One night he finds himself in a lunchroom with a tramp who points a gun at the proprietor and orders Allen to open the cash register. When police arrive, they kill the tramp and hold Allen for robbery. He is sentenced to ten years at hard labor...
...twelve banks owned by George Wingfield opened. It was this chain's weakness which precipitated all the trouble. Banker Wingfield is a tall, powerful man with a shock of black hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining...