Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once-proud Democratic organization of New York has been in a long decline. Malnutrition is not the trouble: it has had plenty of federal and local patronage. What's lacking is leadership muscle, especially since Bronx Boss Ed Flynn has been bedridden...
...York, the Democrats, confused and leaderless since Bronx Boss Ed Flynn became ill last year, still have not fixed on a candidate to oppose able Republican Senator Irving M. Ives. Since Averell Harriman has so far refused to accept the nomination, party leaders may have to fall back on Manhattan Borough President Robert Wagner Jr., son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In that case, the Republicans would have an advantage, but the Democrats may dump Wagner in favor of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. There is an argument among Democrats over whether Junior's name balances...
Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure and Ruth Roman, too. Neither Errol's deeds of derring-do nor some vigorous direction can salvage the farfetched scenario...
After winning $14,000 in a damage suit against wealthy Canadian Gold Man Duncan McMartin, who slapped his face in a Nassau hotel, Cinemactor Errol Flynn decided to buy a hotel of his own. The location: Jamaica, where he already owns a small island, a ranch and a plantation...
...often shouts at its enemies in the same shrill tones it damns the left for using. In defending Senator McCarthy, for example, it calls his critics "mad" people who, like Pavlov's dogs, "foam" at the mouth every time his name is mentioned. It extravagantly hails John T. Flynn (The Road Ahead, While You Slept) as the "keenest journalist of our day," although many rightists think Flynn's hatred of Franklin Roosevelt has blinded his once sharp reporter's eye. The Freeman itself is often so blinded by its own extreme right-wing prejudices that it labels...