Word: gangsterized
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Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
There was a second Bill Boyle banquet in Kansas City. The President, the Vice President, four Cabinet members and most party bigwigs, including Jim Finnegan, were all there too. So was Kansas City Gangster Charlie Binaggio (who was riddled by bullets seven months later in a Kansas City Democratic clubhouse). Another expansive guest was American Lithofold's ubiquitous Robert J. Blauner. He paid for a whole table. It cost him, he told the Senate committee, "a thousand or twelve hundred dollars-I don't remember...
...passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future. The carrot-and-stick technique worked fine, but Beteta is still not satisfied. "We have not caught up with the U.S.," he sighed. "There, you may not be able to put a gangster in jail for murder, but you can always get him for tax evasion. For a finance minister, that is the perfect state...
...Durante career had its seamy side, too. One big source of income for the trio was the Manhattan speakeasy they ran during Prohibition, a favorite gangster hangout. But Jimmy managed to dodge real trouble. The only time he was pinched for selling liquor, he moaned, "I'm brandied as a criminal...
...portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...