Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film currently horrifying U. S. audiences is I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, taken from a successful autobiography of almost like title* written by Robert Elliott Burns. Last week the fugitive was a fugitive no longer. Author Burns was apprehended in Newark. He had been running a toy shop in East Orange. His arrest aroused national interest, stirred up two issues: a general one on the question of crime & punishment, a specific legal one between Georgia and New Jersey...
...14th Engineers, served 21 months overseas. Home again, he found no work, drifted South. In Atlanta, one night in 1921, he and two flophouse companions held up and robbed a grocer of $5.80. Burns was sentenced to serve six-to-ten years in the Campbell County chain gang...
...again escaped, this time from the Troup County chain gang. Then he wrote his book which was a highly exaggerated account of his own experiences. His publishers and film executives refused to reveal his whereabouts to police. But lately he gave a lecture at Westfield, N. J. in conjunction with the showing of his film. And growing yet bolder, last month he attended a luncheon at Trenton, sat next to Superintendent Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of New Jersey's State police...
...next time a house dick snatches anything out of your hands, curses you, or makes any insulting remarks to your girl friend, get a gang of your pals and show the hoodlum that it is safer to be hustling beer for Capone...
...Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Warner). When he gets back from the War, Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) is too ambitious to go back to his old job in a shoe factory. He wants to be a construction engineer and sets out to look for a job. His luck is bad. One night he finds himself in a lunchroom with a tramp who points a gun at the proprietor and orders Allen to open the cash register. When police arrive, they kill the tramp and hold Allen for robbery. He is sentenced to ten years at hard labor...