Word: g-men
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...such a beating with a gun butt that she died six weeks later. At Manchester, Ky. in 1932 he participated in a five-hour gunfight which cost the lives of two kinsmen. Last summer this prodigal career reached its cli max when Barrett, pursued by a pair of G-men for violating the Federal motor vehicle theft law, shot and killed Agent Nelson B. Klein at West College Corner, Ind. Last week at Indianapolis, as the first man to be sentenced to death under the new Federal law which makes the killing of a Federal officer a mandatory capital offense...
...poet who thinks, not the frenzied Vates of popular imagination. His "Portrait" bears the spiritual and ethical features of a contemporary figure; the broker, like the poor, is always with us, even if the knight-errant is dead and buried and has not even left a successor in the G-men. Healy's five stanzas are a study in free will; the last may be quoted here...
...Washington Attorney General Homer S. Cummings had abruptly been created "Cabinet-Minister-General," with six bureau chiefs of the Department of Justice becoming "Cabinet-Ministers-of-the-First Rank." Such a change in Washington would mean that U. S. citizens were being handed over to be governed by G-men...
...serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact and terrifying it makes other G-men stories seem like Mother Goose. Although the operations of Government agents provide initial tension, the real drama is the conflict of the criminal characters, worked out between each other and the stranded couple...
Mary Burns, Fugitive (Paramount) is evidence that, if the cinema is not quite ready to call off its exploitation of G-men and supergangsters, it feels driven nevertheless to eerie heights of implausibility in search of new twists. Sylvia Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in love with a winning stranger (Alan Baxter) only to learn, when he begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss...