Word: gangsterisms
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...eternally troubled by the brass knuckles which labor displayed to the world in years of bitter organizational and inter-union wars. And he tolerated and refused to interfere with the machinations of thugs like Willy Bioff, George Browne, George Scalise, James Bove, et al. Nine months before Scalise, the gangster king of the Building Service Union, was convicted of stealing members' dues, Green blandly asked Franklin Roosevelt to wipe out an earlier conviction for white-slaving so Scalise could apply for citizenship...
Communists long ago observed a simple (but useful) political fact: the men who are capable of governing and guiding a nation are, even in big countries, a comparatively small group. Destroy them and you have decapitated a country; after that, any political gangster with a gun in his hand can rule the headless nation as he likes...
...show's producer (Larry Parks) has staked his life as collateral against a gangster's backing of the show. He plans to put on one of the most sodden of those productions whose success depends on a snarling contempt for any form of art higher than a Rockette's hip joint. Terpsichore nags him into trying the only thing worse: really bad "Art." Played her way, the show flops in Philadelphia. Played his way, it is a smash hit in New York. At this point Terpsichore is reluctant about returning to heaven; she has, of course, fallen...
Desert Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...
...were due in Chicago any minute. Across the page from that story, the Herald told all about "two good policemen who are on trial for trying to solve [a] murder." This kind of news, said a front-page editorial, was run "to help Mayor Kennelly prevent the return of gangster rule in this city." Capone's mob might or might not be coming back, but there was no doubt that an able mob of Hearstlings had moved in on the Her old-American...