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Only when Moe Rosenberg was indicted by a Chicago grand jury for failure to pay $65,000 taxes, did the full light of publicity fall upon Mr. Rosenberg's lurid past: a confession of guilt to an arson charge in 1913; a 20-month sentence to Leavenworth in 1915 for stealing from freight cars. Last week Chicago papers promised that the Rosenberg trial "would rival that of Capone," would painfully air a basketful of local and Statewide dirty Democratic linen...
...Equitable Trust Co. (merged a year later with Chase). Was it a war between the Rockefellers and Morgan? The Hearst Press, without a single new fact to base its theory on, and making such blunders as describing Mr. Aldrich as a Rockefeller son-in-law,* seized this lurid angle: "The House of Rockefeller would strip the House of Morgan of this tremendous power. ... It caught the Morgan camp wholly unawares and created something akin to consternation. . . . Even with the Rockefeller backing, it took courage to antagonize and defy the House of Morgan, starting a feud in which no quarter will...
...gangster pictures and, in the opinion of Vice President Jack Warner, almost every other trend in the cinema since 1927, except the trend toward bankruptcy. This picture, a new experiment in color, is better than the ones which most major companies tried a year or two ago. At once lurid and realistic, colored cinematography is appropriate to mystery stories, particularly to this one which starts with a conflagration in a waxworks gallery...
With that off, there is yet space to deal with the "Match King." This is sordid, romantic, inaccurate transcription of the newspaper accounts of the life and death of Mr. Ivar Krenger, the man who embarrassed Lee, Higginson. The detail is very lurid and satisfying. "He Learned About Women" (which did nearly get squeezed out of this) is an amusing farce, with Alison Skipworth and Stuart Erwin overacting no more than is humanly possible...
...been known about Manhattan's Greenwich Village the past ten years as a sardonic bombaster His tall story of football at Notre Dame (see above) is one of his more amusing less lurid ones. He has the vocabulary of many sciences technical and social, at his command. Until his present emergence as a Techo-economist he was accepted as an entertaining drifter who lived in Village squalor. For some time he conducted "a small business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott...