Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black little Robert Barnes and big brown Woodrow Wilson Shropshire say they were sent to solitary confinement in a North Carolina chain-gang "dark house" last January because they warmed their feet at a roadside fire after a guard told them not to. The guard's story is that the two Negro convicts-Barnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunk-were put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went...
...right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch in Wright's village and it wouldn't be two weeks before they'd wreck it. This town is built for a lot of social workers...
...Without Names (Paramount). For cinemaddicts who are not yet weary of them, this picture exhibits G-men up to their customary tricks while tracking a gang of embittered bank robbers to a small-town hideaway. Fred MacMurray is the Federal agent who arrives in town pretending to be a representative for an airline. Madge Evans is the girl reporter who regards him with suspicion. Leslie Fenton is the head crook who terrorizes the town's leading banker. Lynn Overman is the secondary G-man whose murder is the signal for the grand roundup in the deserted factory in which...
...with intent to kill. Calm as her Cherokee ancestors, Lois Thompson told her story. Last winter she had refused Daniel Shaw a dance date. Shortly thereafter came the first of a series of extortion notes, threatening her with death unless she handed over $3,000. Daniel Shaw was the gang's agent. On the afternoon of March 27 he had set out to kidnap or kill her. She had decided to kill him first...
Just why a gang should pick the youngest of a poor widow's eight children as a likely extortion victim, Lois Thompson could not explain. Neither could anyone else. Daniel Shaw politely denied the whole story, said he hardly knew the girl. But as defense attorneys pointed out, he had admittedly sojourned in San Francisco "which is the headquarters of the white slave business" and in Illinois "where John Dillinger and his gang had their hideouts." Anyway, concluded one attorney, he was probably a Japanese...