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...Roaring Twenties" is a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade and down into the gloom and common sense of the thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney...
...headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...suppose that the ambitious young Governor has been unaware of the political and civil dynamite represented by the bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent Miners & Truckers Association. A slim, shrewd, explosive Welshman who lost a leg in a mine accident, 'Legger Humphrey cried: "We will welcome any impartial investigation by the State Legislature. But any effort by the big coal operators or the State to stamp us out by force...
...night in February 1933 while he and his wife were putting their car away, Charles Boettcher 2nd of Denver was kept prisoner 17 days on a South Dakota ranch, released just before $60,000 ransom was paid. In a Sioux Falls penitentiary one year later, Verne Sankey, 'legger, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself just before he was to plead guilty to the Boettcher kidnapping (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow and sister-in-law, accused of aiding the abduction, came to an indecisive...
Comment on these proposals, when they were forwarded to Congressional Committees, was not immediately favorable. Wets felt the rates were so high that the 'legger could continue operation. Drys complained that the rates were still too low to encourage temperance...