Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentle, pious Frank Murphy, having just returned from visits to Alcatraz and the contrasting U. S. prison farm at La Tuna, Tex., announced that he is against Alcatraz. "It is necessary to have a place like Alcatraz to break up a crowd that conspires to escape or kill or murder," he said. But he believed results equally good could be obtained in an escape-proof, walled farm, without quite such grim technique. "It is a great injustice to San Francisco," he said, "to have that place of horror on the doorstep of the city...
...killer or else suffer "further measures." The Czech Unity Party, only Czech political organization still existent in Bohemia and Moravia, declared such "acts of force are a crime against the entire Czech people," called upon Czechs to cooperate in apprehending the slayer. The Czechs wanted it understood that murder was not in their plans. While Kladno wondered what further punishment was in store for it, in Prague it was feared that the next German move would be to take away what little autonomy the Czechs retained after Adolf Hitler moved in last March...
...have a better right to be proud of the larger body of your class who, without any claim to fame or fortune, have faced and fought through two of the greatest national crises in America's history. Those men, dragged from their first jobs into a mass murder three thousand miles away, brought back to meet a hysterical nation who thought its future was its bankroll, forced to sit helplessly by and watch their financial underpinnings swept away, of those men who are now trying to restore and rebuild, each in his own way, you can be proud...
...Grade Allen Murder Case (Paramount), by the late S. S. Van Dine, refuses to accept murder as a serious business. Gracie calls Philo Vance "Fido," outfootles Sergeant Heath, falls for the murderer, gets the hero jailed. Typical gag: Gracie scrutinizing her own photograph, wondering, "Now, where have I seen that face before...
...book version of that trial generally sounds slightly McGuffey; Hollywood's vast inflation of it is louder and funnier and off its historical base in almost every particular. Cinemauthor Lamar Trotti last week explained: "When I was working as a reporter on the Atlanta Georgian, I covered a murder trial and became very interested in the accused man and his family. I've always wanted to do a story about them, and this is it. . . . It's really only a whodunit...