Word: jailbirds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dapper, grey-haired Democratic politician, William Francis Xavier Geoghan (Ghee-gan). When Commissioner Heriands began probing into District Attorney Geoghan's protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands...
Pennies from Heaven (Columbia) is a textbook example of the oldest adage in cinemaking: Nothing ruins a picture more effectively than too many good ideas. Best idea wasted is the character of Larry (Bing Crosby), a jailbird minstrel whose most prized possession is a 13th-Century lute, in an elaborate routine, involving a letter from a condemned man to Patsy Smith (Edith Fellowes), orphan of a murdered father. "Pennies from Heaven-the coins tossed down to him from tenement windows-are the currency with which Larry undertakes to support Patsy and her Grandpa (Donald Meek...
...prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then the Perkins' battery business has gone steadily downhill, due, he believes, to the New Deal's rural electrification program and to the fact that his competitors call him a "jailbird...
...Left and Right convinced that the self-satisfied President had cast himself in the role of umpire and considered useless any attempt to prevent Spaniards from shooting out their political differences, the stage for Civil War was set. The Cabinet's radical Minister of Labor, only recently a jailbird, took to locking up Madrid employers and keeping them in jail until they yielded to the demands of their striking employes. The Left, feeling stronger, every day in its purpose to maneuver the Republic into a Soviet, then offered great provocation: the assassination of the leader of the Right...
...jailbird Labor Minister of the Spanish Republic, His Excellency Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhooee), who has been settling strikes by jailing the employers until they yielded (TIME, July 13), last week had something new and hard on his hands. Highly excitable Spanish syndicalists fell to quarreling with the Socialist building trade-unions, decided that the only thing to do was to blow up water mains. With a will, syndicalists fell to this work and soon had blown up so many mains that half the residential buildings in Madrid were without water...