Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King of Alcatraz (Paramount). That old favorite, the escaped gangster disguised as somebody's great-aunt, in a lively melodrama otherwise distinguished chiefly by the complete absence of star names from the cast...
...week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail in court, lost his temper when Weinberg told of conferring with him, cried: "You know you lie!" Thereafter, two respectable witnesses...
...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison, tough Gangster Alvin Karpis, onetime Public Enemy No. 1,-* asked for and was given two books: Salt Water Fishing, An American Angler in Australia...
...that Motor Magnate Henry Ford had accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the anti-Semitic German Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday fortnight ago, The Lion roared: "Mr. Henry Ford, in my opinion, is a damned fool for permitting the world's greatest gangster to give him this citation...
...providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...