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Stories that Joe Keenan resigned because Boss Roosevelt would not make him, too, a Federal judge, were false as a gangster's oath. Fact was, Joe Keenan was offered a $12,500 judgeship and he declined it simply because that is not enough on which to send four children through college. Back in private practice, Lawyer Keenan can easily make several times $12,500 a year. His standing with the Janizariat is ace high. Yet because his unswerving efforts in the Supreme Court fight and the Purge were known to be based more on loyalty than conviction, he stands...
...means of averting war was advocated by Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, speaking at the bi-weekly meeting of the Foreign Policy Association Saturday. He maintained that the dictatorships would soon collapse before such a coalition of the democratic powers since these "gangster" countries could not hope to wage a successful war against a force as strong as this...
Ambush (Paramount). Gangster item, slightly distinguished from other gangster items by smooth direction and a good performance by Paramount's ubiquitous Lloyd Nolan...
...clenched, bellicose. But the social message of Irwin Shaw's "Brooklyn fable" is as softly conveyed as a woman's "Yes." The Gentle People is the story of two benevolent middle-aged cronies down Coney Island way who love to fish of an evening. A tough young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor. Once they do, everybody becomes as happy as a clam at high tide...
Back on Broadway for the first time after six years in Hollywood, Franchot Tone-an original member of The Group Theatre-proved nimble in his gangster role, but too suave and lacking in guts...