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Last week newsgatherers were allowed to crowd around a City Hall table behind which stood Commissioner Whalen, police dignitaries and the Mayor. "Now, now," chided Mr. Walker, "this isn't Wanamaker's bargain counter." Then he announced that Mr. Whalen had resigned, was returning to Wanamaker's. In his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES-& CITIES: Mulrooney for Whalen | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Also the scenery and background are unusual: a sumptuous night club, sentimental ballads, whizzing taxicabs with mounted machine guns, desperados infesting the family entrance of the night club, cruel hardboiled policemen and imported dialogue consisting of "coppers," "rackete" "third-degrees" and the rest. This film is entirely different from anything...

Author: By J. J. R. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/23/1930 | See Source »

Divorced. Jim Tully, hardboiled hobo novelist (Beggars of Life, Circus Parade); by Margaret Rider Myers Tully; at Las Vegas, N. Mex.; for extreme cruelty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Married | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

The U. S. Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking Reporter | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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