Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Touhy & Co. (Preston Foster, Victor McLaglen et al.) follows, fairly closely, the story of the original "Terrible" Touhy's last days at large. There are exciting bits in the film, and sharp ones, the cynically mumbled administration of an oath in court; the horrible kicking around of a lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against...
...decision was promptly hailed by Attorney General Francis Biddle as justifying his course in the Montgomery Ward case (TIME, May 8 et seq.). For the time being, in any case, it would prevent Montgomery Ward from having the law on the President...
Commonwealth & Empire. The Dominion Premiers stood "in firm array" after their recent conference (TIME, May 1 et seq.). Said Churchill: "We have advanced from vague generalities to more precise points of agreement, and we are in a position to carry on discussions with other countries within limits which we have imposed upon ourselves...
...could not escape. Even when Herriman propagandized ... he was unique and wholly captivating: the introduction into his strip of a lonesome dogie who complained of "Old Sir Taxy-Waxy" and all he did to him at the time Hearst so loudly complained of taxation in California (Aug. 8, 1936 et...
...London officialdom. The U.S. press, which for the most part has squirmed silently under increasing censorship pressures, took courage from the stirring of the powerful, slow-to-anger A.P. U.S. newsmen were also heartened last week to hear England's press baron, Lord Rothermere (London Daily Mail, et al.) echo the old cry of Kent Cooper for treaties guaranteeing universal freedom of the press. Declared Viscount Rothermere: "A free press is apparently a greater deterrent to the making of war than anything that can be laid down in peace treaties...