Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During a night of drinking in Little Falls, N.J., grey-haired Mrs. Geneva Humphrey decided that her middle-aged husband was taking up with another woman. At 3 a.m., lacking any other weapon, she chased him down the street with the family automobile. Husband Hugh Humphrey, a butler by trade, dodged nimbly into a driveway, discovered too late it was a dead end. His wife drove in after him and squashed him to death between the bumper and a cellar door...
...even smelled of politics. Welland, site of the Page-Hersey factory, is a politically important riding represented in Parliament by Canada's Labor Minister, bumptious Humphrey Mitchell...
...Government at Ottawa was still brightly optimistic about it all. Cried big, bluff Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell: "There's nothing to get hysterical about. In six months our problem may be to fight a boom." The understandably worried workers certainly hoped...
...homecoming was not what bald Ernest Humphrey Scott, president of Chicago's E. H. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc., had expected. Back from a trip to Australia, he found the Scott Company's capitalization increased from 6,000 to 251,850 shares on the strength of wartime sales to the Navy. Almost 225,000 shares had already been sold to the public for $703,125. And Founder Scott found himself demoted from his $18,000-a-year job as president to advertising & sales manager...
...Humphrey Bogart plays the unlucky killer with his usual proficient intensity, and Rose Hobart is bitterly knowledgeable as the hating, hated wife. There is enough talent and ambition involved in Conflict to make another Double Indemnity-which is roughly what its makers were trying for. But the picture is too ornate to be of genuine psychological interest, and too slow to be thoroughly exciting...