Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers heaped denunciation on C. I. O. for stealing A. F. of L. members, for taking jewelry workers into a pants makers' union, watchmakers into a radio union. President Wharton of the Machinists described the C. I. O. as "Lewis, Hillman, Dubinsky, Howard and their gang of sluggers. Communists, radicals and soap-box artists, professional bums, expelled members of labor unions, outright scabs and the Jewish organizations with all their Red affiliates." President Mahon of the Street Car employes told how pickle workers had been taken into C. I. O.'s automobile workers' union and added, "even...
...their viciousness and the way they operate, the Brady mob is going to make Dillinger look like a neophyte." This sombre testimonial was justified shortly after the Goodland bank robbery. Pursued by two policemen, Brady & friends hid behind a church at a crossroads. When the officers drove up, the gang opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Trooper Paul Minneman fell out of the car. Brady walked over to him. "This------'s dead," he said...
...Brady mob when two mornings later they rolled up to the Indianapolis fair grounds, held up a watchman while they made a telephone call. That afternoon they lunched at a restaurant a block from the Marion County jail, where their colleague Geisking was being held for killing the gang's second policeman. If they intended to "spring" their friend, they did not do it that afternoon. Instead, Brady & friends vanished...
...Lieutenant Richard L. Perry (Robert Taylor) is secretly assigned by President McKinley to investigate the operations of a band of Midwest bank-robbers whose uncanny efficiency suggests that they are in league with Government officials. Lieutenant Perry gets off to a flying start by falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot, leaving Perry with no proof that he is a Government agent. Getting Perry out of jail entails the assistance not only...
...alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff of the armored car with gas released from an attacking automobile, an episode that will be censorable in several States since it suggests how to commit a crime...