Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrong Arm of the Law. Sneaky Pete Sellers as a raffish Raffles heads a gang of candid-camera jewel robbers...
...this lively account of Dillinger and the other gangs that roistered through the Midwest during those Depression years, John Toland records not only what kind of men made the gangs but what kind of climate made the men. When Dillinger (he pronounced it with a hard g) formed his first gang in 1933, the national income had dropped to half of what it was in 1929. Dillinger thought of himself as a modern Jesse James, and he never tired of saying that he merely recovered from the bankers what they had stolen from the people-an assertion that a surprising...
...Wrong Arm of the Law. Sneaky Pete Sellers as a raffish Raffles heads a gang of candid-camera jewel robbers, meets his match when a rival gang, disguised as policemen, muscles in on the racket...
...predecessor. Last week Yusupov published a report charging that more than $600 million had been wasted during the last three years on ill-conceived projects; no fewer than 16,139 regional officials were fired last year alone, 2,340 of them for stealing and embezzling $1,270,000. A gang of crooks led by the chief of the Tselinograd Trade Board faked reports, rigged phony prices, and sold meat, butter and automobiles on the black market; in Pavlodar, three men managed to make off with no fewer than 300,000 bottles of wine and vodka. The entire party and government...
After a long inquiry through the European under-world, van Stratten discovers the criminal background of Arkadin's wealth. He finds, in addition, the real purpose of his mission. The financier, in a mad attempt to hide his past from Raina, wants to eliminate members of his former gang. Soon the investigator becomes the only person left in the way of Arkadin's ambition. Here Welles loses the chance for a dramatically effective ending by killing off Arkadin in a unrealistic...