Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marlene Dietrich is a heroine of the contemporary order, a "coaster" (poule de luxe) of the Chinese shoreline. The other characters are a group of the ill-assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a German opium dealer who seems to suffer from chilblains, an oriental trollop, a half-breed Chinese named Henry Chang, a British Army surgeon with an Addisonian turn of speech. In the up-to-date habit of Transatlantic, Union Depot and Grand Hotel, they are all inhabiting a train of luxurious...
...Corruption. In 1929 after Governor Roosevelt had settled down comfortably at Albany a mayoralty campaign was held in New York City. Congressman Fiorello La Guardia. the Republican nominee, charged wholesale Tammany graft and corruption, named one Magistrate Albert Vitale as the borrower of $20,000 from Arnold Rothstein, murdered gambler. The Republican Legislature ordered an investigation. Governor Roosevelt vetoed the measure. Vitale was removed from office by a higher court. The stench of scandal continued. A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges. Again...
...long as Paramount can find plots requiring the services of a hard-boiled; quick spoken character actor, Edward G. Robinson should be walking on air. Gangster, gambler, or, in this case, managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter...
...Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper shotgun shell and the metallic cartridge in the U. S. It made the deadly little Derringer short barreled pistol, carried in the sash of many a gambler. Newest Remington shells and cartridges are Kleanbore, with potassium chlorate eliminated from the priming mixture, thus sparing the barrel from rust and pitting. Remington once made typewriters, was not successful and sold the division, now part of Remington Rand. Inc. At present Remington is the second biggest maker of cash...
...Lawyers Ahern & Fink had assembled eight bookmakers with shiny shoes. To them Snorkey was no smart gambler. One William Yario said Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost...