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...Chief Justice of U.S. courts in West Germany, was struck a mortal diplomatic blow, sure to budge him from the bench. Vacationing in the Canary Islands, Clark, who had vowed he would sit tight even though his commission expires this month, was suddenly telephoned by Robert D. Hale, U.S. Consul General in Madrid. The threat, on Washington's orders: Clark had to hand in his diplomatic passport or face arrest for his obstinacy. He capitulated, gave Hale the credentials, got in return a new passport, which will expire Jan. 28. In an outraged huff, Clark announced that he would...
Former Vice President Alben Berkley admitted to reporters that he is "toying with the idea" of adding his political reminiscences to the growing library of New Deal memoirs. Pressed for details, Barkley, a hale & hearty 74, confessed that he had never kept a diary, but he had "a good memory," and besides, "some people write down a lot of things they later wish they hadn...
...supporting cast is uniformly unimpressive. There are none of the pungent, vibrant hangers-on, secretaries bodyguards and the like, who enlivened All the Kings Men. Barbara Hale is mediocre as Martin's trusting young wife who realizes too late what kind of a man she has married, and Anne Francis is photogenic, but little else, as the spicy little swamp girl who becomes Martin's mistress...
Based on Adria Locke Langley's 1945 bestseller, the film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting...
...Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within the week a factory offered to make plaster statues of any historical figures the colonel cared to name, but that wouldn't do. He was after the weather-resistant kind...