Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The bad news began to break when an $8,500 Observer check for advertising promotion "bounced" from Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. Since Mr. Heath had functioned as treasurer of Observer Co., up to this point not a soul had suspected that the paper's books would...
As an ambitious dress model who rises to the top through chance, Kay Francis plays the lead opposite Claude Rains in "Stolen Holiday", feature picture of a mediocre show at the University. Playing the part of Mademoiselle Nicole Picot, she is completely taken in by a crooked financier, Stefan Orloff...
There may be something to Einstein's crooked light beams; but to shoot bullets around corners, through a barrel embedded in a propeller shaft revolving several thousand times per minute-Wow! Even if the barrel grooves would turn in the same direction as the propeller the velocity of the...
The chief interest in this otherwise stereotype film lies in its explanation of the Orloff (Stavisky) method of financing. Starting from humble beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of...
Except as a huge source of criminal funds and as a possible lead to some su-per-boss like Luciano, Prosecutor Dewey was no more interested in policy gambling than he had been in prostitution. But though he never expected to wipe out prostitution, he did announce that he might...