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...grand climax came when somebody suggested that the boys go out in the Square to play. This resulted in a game of G-Men and gangsters in which the proctors beat the rioters to the gate every time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCTORS KEEP ON THE MOVE AS YARDLING RIOT FIZZLES | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

Among the numerous followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine who have never laid eyes on the man they think is God, is a sizable group in California. These Divinites claim to number 100,000, one-quarter of them white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Religious Party | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Kingston "Promised Land," Father Divine disavowed the man who had lived in his Harlem heaven and whose confessions of sexual misdeeds had proudly been spread in the official Divine Spoken Word. Meanwhile, in Pasadena, G-men found odd evidence linking Hunt and Divine and indicating Hunt's status in the cult. This was a partly-completed "throne car," being built by a coach works. It was to cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and specifications called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Religious Party | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Immigration Service pistol team: the national midwinter pistol-shooting championship; at Tampa, Fla. In fourth place, behind Miami and Los Angeles police teams, were the Federal Government's famed G-Men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...G-man organization, Sam (Harry Watson) his trusty right-hand man. At first Penrod's life is complicated only by the trouble he is always getting into by his scraps with mean, 'fraid-cat Rodney Bitts (Jackie Morrow), the son of his dad's boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow G-man Verman (Phillip Hurlic, the junior G-men throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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