Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor Lehman's appointment of Tom Dewey (married, father of one, earning $50,000 a year) as Special Prosecutor - and then the bang-up conclusion with Racketeers Luciano, Pennochio, Coulcher, et al. going to jail for 15, 20, 30 to 50 years, and the linking of rackets to Tammany Hall...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME...
...Morgan but was directed against another banker, and Corey in his book used Morgan's name instead of the other's. This involves Morgan in the censure meant for somebody else. I am told that nowhere in the report is Morgan cited critically. Is my information true? GORDON -ROBERTS Newark...
...Ruth Gordon, recently brought from Broadway to Hollywood to play shrewish Mary Todd Lincoln, plays an even more difficult role as self-effacing Frau Ehrlich, and plays it better. By shadings of voice, gesture, glance, she becomes the wife who, excluded from her famous husband's death chamber by the presence of his great colleagues and his physician, sits playing the simplest of German love songs: Du, du liegst mir im Herzen. When she can be alone with him at last, he is dead. And her closing of the door upon herself and his body is the picture...
...Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart; TIME...