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...Tacho, who of late had been a target for some of the U.S. State Department's glassiest stares, announced before leaving Nicaragua that he would not be a candidate in the February elections. He bestowed his official favor on Dr. Leonardi Argüello, a 71-year-old druggist with a deep-dyed goatee. The other candidate. Dr. Enoc Aguado, a prepossessing lawyer with few relatives, was named by the opposition in Somoza's absence. An American in Nicaragua described him as "the kind of man who. if he were a candidate for President...
...worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further attempt at satire in the person of a priggish druggist which comes out sinister rather than funny, and you have most of what's wrong with "Cluny Brown...
...protest against the soaring prices of the early twenties. That strike was won, the inflationary spree was halted and prices levelled off. It could be won again. Last week, a group of school children in a Middle Western town conducted a strike against the corner drugstore because the druggist had upped "cokes" from a nickel to a dime. After three days, the druggist capitulated and the price reverted to a nickel...
...uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...
There were more subtle ways of convincing dissenters. Crump policemen once trailed funeral processions of a recalcitrant undertaker, traffic slips ready. In 1940, they stood outside the door of a Memphis druggist who made the mistake of supporting Willkie, and searched all his customers for "narcotics." Or a businessman could have his assessments raised...