Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of Police Craconescu confessed that his amazing success in solving a long series of crime mysteries is due to the fact that his agents committed the crimes. Notably they robbed U. S. Fiscal Expert Charles S. Dewey of $2,000 (TIME, May 19, 1930), an exploit which enabled Chief Craconescu to win a medal for his efficiency in recovering the stolen property. Last month he won by the same means a $4,000 reward for the arrest of one Barbale Nagoita, famed crook. Crook Nagoita promptly escaped from prison. Rumanian detectives received a secret tip, searched the house...
...remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious...
...turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what...
...gruesome Signal Corps official photographs of mutilations, putrified dead and other war horrors to amuse the morbidly curious. It seems unbelievable that the people whom these men died so horribly to defend would want to gloat over these pictures and ridicule these heroic dead, or that a publisher would exploit them...
...reserve flying corps and runs into a rich and comely lion-hunter (Catherine Dale Owen), not a bit like Anne Morrow. It looks for a time as though the valiant aeronaut were guilty of treachery to the girl back home, who had sacrificed some property to finance the exploit. But in the end-you've guessed it-he renounces "the hero racket" over the radio, returns quite chastened to his native Maine, his twangy rustic cronies and his girl...