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...Communists had fired the building, that this was the last straw, Germany must awake! etc. And having eradicated the opposition they proceeded to erect the totalitarian state based on scrupulous unfairness. But now, obeying an incongruous twirk of conscience, they have decided to use legal processes to discover and convict those they accuse of the crime. This was a mistake. For the legal process has enabled the real defendants--Torgler, Dmitroff, and Teneff--to demonstrate quite conclusively that only if sudden insanity had seized them would they even have conceived the idea of burning the Reichstag, and that...
...outline, the story concerns the contest between the student body of a small-town high school and a peculiarly childish gangster named Louis Garrett (Charles Bickford). When the gangster shoots a Hebrew tailor for refusing to pay for "protection," the schoolboys indignantly try to find evidence that will convict him. When the gangster shoots a schoolboy whom he finds skulking in his bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code...
Last week Leo Frank's name got back into the news again when Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge pardoned throat-cutting convict William Creen, now a sick, broken old man after his 20-year imprisonment...
...first to condemn a kidnapper to death. From Washington, Attorney General Cummings, spearhead of President Roosevelt's anti-crime drive, had sent his Special Assistant Joseph Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice had taken the girl from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter...
...used to be one of my boys in Sing Sing, where he used to attend mass and go to confession. Alberto was his name. It seems that he was declared an undesirable alien when he got out of Sing Sing and was deported. Think of me meeting an ex-convict from Sing Sing in Genoa...