Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midwest newspapers last week splashed through such an orgy of Sex and Murder as rarely falls to the lot of a headline-writer. One was in Peoria, Ill.; two were in Chicago; the last was in Cleveland...
Peoria and the Press frowned on defense attempts to show that Thompson was insane. His younger brother happened last week to be in jail on a charge of taking "indecent liberties" with a small boy. Briskly Gerald Thompson was found guilty of murder, sentenced to the electric chair...
...enemies, Director Hoover has plenty. They are not only men with guns in their hands and murder in their hearts. They are political lawyers who resent the Bureau's activities against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...
...Murder Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "All right,'' roars Steve Grey (Spencer Tracy), the hero of this picture, "I'll write you the greatest story your cheesy newspaper has ever printed. Now get out of here and shut up." Since this is the way newspaper reporters customarily speak to their editors in the cinema, audiences at The Murder Man will not be surprised to learn that instead of being fired Steve Grey gets a bonus. Of more consequence is the probability that they will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story...
Ambushed at the door of his home, beaten and hospitalized with painful injuries was Mayor James M, O'Brien of Revere, Mass. Held in $5,000 bail, charged with assault with intent to murder was Robert Jasse, New England's onetime middleweight boxing champion, laid off by Mayor O'Brien as chief of the Suffolk Downs race track special police, who had been heard to say at Revere's City Hall that he had been "tossed around enough," that when he saw the Mayor he would "tear him apart." Next day the convalescent Mayor lay abed...