Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crime School (Warner Bros.) is a mug of cinema mulligan stocked with chunks of such seasoned staples as James Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind...
Chief extracurricular activity of James Marshall, however, is fighting juvenile delinquency and crime. A onetime boys' reform school president, when he became a member of the Board of Education he promptly started a two-year survey of maladjustment and delinquency in the schools which last fall proposed an elaborate program for keeping youngsters out of mischief...
Thus, last week in the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Mary Eleanor Smith told the story. The murder of James Bassett was the most celebrated West Coast crime of the 1920's. Mrs. Smith and her son Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people...
...Nazis but democratic Germans of the Republic who in 1931 secured the arrest, conviction and sentencing to 18 months' imprisonment of Carl von Ossietsky for the crime of editing articles which could be construed as divulging to the enemies of the Fatherland what was already an open secret known to all Europe-that Germany had from the start violated the Treaty of Versailles by clandestine rearmament, even under Chancellor Stresemann...
...Sealtest Rising Musical Star series, which her committee graciously commended under not one but two categories for its music and good taste in advertising. Her aim is to make newsboys whistle strains from Aïda. She storms at what she considers the state of radio broadcasting, loathes crime stories, poorly performed music, women baritones, precocious child artists, true story programs, advertisers who coax children to eat their products, amateur hours...