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Cried Mayor Walmsley: "Huey Long . . . that madman! . . . coward! . . . pirate! . . . Caligula! . . . Nero! Attila! Henry VIII! Louis...
...head and shoulders rise above a trench, the moonshine setting off its black laughing features (Nightly Meeting with a Madman...
...planned to write the true story of his family. His father Drusus. his brother Germanicus both came to suspiciously sudden ends. When the good Augustus died (by his wife's poison) and was succeeded by the vicious Tiberius, Claudius lived in observant retirement. Under the rule of the madman Caligula he found himself in the unenviable position of middle-aged court butt...
...time to cruise from Hyde Park to Washington. It was so the February before when the Nourmahal carried Franklin Roosevelt through the fish-filled waters of the Gulf Stream to give him rest before taking up his duties in Washington. After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others...
...based on the famous Dusseldorf murders of a few years ago, when a madman managed to kill eight children before he was apprehended, and a certain grim note is added to the picture by the knowledge that it is not a fictional account. The murderer is obviously a sexual pervert, a fact that is brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer...