Word: gangsterized
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United States begins with a British soldier and his girl watching a U.S. gangster movie. After the show, at a tea counter, the Tommy tells his girl that the tough talk, the chattering machine guns, the breakneck getaways are all true, that America is really like that; he read all about it in a crime magazine. Nearby a G.I. (played by Corporal Warren Bryan) sulks out loud: "Why, I've never even seen a gangster, never heard of anyone in our town who has. . . . That's not American but you can't tell them...
Despot, dictator, lunatic, gangster-with these words Yenan last week resumed its political critique of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after almost a year of vain negotiations between Chungking and the Chinese Communists. The words fell thick and fast...
...plea for unity and promise of constitutional government (TIME, March 12). They declared: the all-party national assembly, which Chiang proposed, would be a "congress of slaves" unless chosen by free elections. (Chiang wished to postpone elections until peacetime.) Chiang's profession of faith in democracy was "gangster talk." His suggestion that the Communist army (whose control is the pivotal issue between Chungking and Yenan) be turned over to a U.S. general under Chiang's supreme command was "lunatic" talk. His "dictatorship" must be ended. But in a "coalition" government, the Generalissimo "may still be allowed to occupy...
...fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...
Married. Beatrice Wasserman Buchalter, 40, nightclubbing widow of Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, gangster, and labor racketeer executed last year for a Murder, Inc. slaying; and Arthur Jarwood, 37, onetime Manhattan nightclub proprietor; she for the third time, he for the second; in St. Petersburg...