Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware of how public morbidity has been exploited by the publishers of such gang-war books as X Marks the Spot, Publisher Putnam is shrewd enough to attempt to elevate the moral tone of his volume by making it a "document against war." He hopes that peace societies will buy and distribute The Horror of It on the theory that war is the best propaganda against war. To add to the book's respectability, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller pastor, and Carrie Chapman Catt were enlisted to write forewords on the peace theme. Dr. Fosdick...
Robbery, jealousy, and vengeance are the three motives responsible for nearly all murders, according to Dr. George Burgeas Magrath '94, professor of Legal Medicine, and medical examiner of Suffolk County. Gang killings may be loosely classified in the last category, although they are really an abnormal manifestation...
...Inside Story, equipped with 14 scenes and a revolving stage, adds little to the archives of gang fiction. It presents an unscrupulous public enemy named Louis Corotto (Louis Calhern), the man in whose villainous talons lie the police of his city, the District Attorney, the State's political leader and the well-meaning Governor himself. Through his influence over these public agents and agencies Louis Corotto gets a boy out of jail, arranges a diabolical plot to make it appear that the boy has killed a minor vice merchant, and pushes the whole scheme within ten minutes...
...California, where the majority of stockholders reside, the Giannini faction has been holding tumultuous meetings up and down the State, has thrown accusations at "the Walker gang,'' has demanded that the opposition speak out in answer. Mr. Giannini has let his men do most of the speechmaking. But his presence on the platform has brought the cheers. While the story has been sensational, newspapers have played it down, knowing that the Giannini attacks did no good to California's Bank of America, which Transamerica owns...
High Pressure (Warner). Since the departure of gang pictures, the cinema has developed half a dozen minor trends to take their place. One, already on the wane, was for "kid pictures." like Skippy, Sooky, Huckleberry Finn. Another was for "one location" stories, like Transatlantic, Union Depot, the forthcoming Hotel Continental and Grand Hotel. A third, closest to the technique of gang pictures, was a series of surveys of exciting occupations, such as taxi-driving, gambling, swindling and reporting...