Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elected to the County Court. A little later came the big break in his career. Brooklyn had been suffering an epidemic of murder; in two years, 20 unsolved cases had collected on the books. Democratic Leader Frank V. Kelly asked him to run for Kings County (Brooklyn) district attorney. He did, and was elected. Two years later he was a famous man; he had exposed and broken the notorious criminal ring, Murder, Inc., had sent seven of its members to the electric chair...
...Communist techniques have been the political tools of tyrants from time immemorial: murder and terror. We refuse to accept fraud and deceit as standards of public conduct. We reject murder and terror as political weapons...
Beal and 15 other strikers were indicted for first-degree murder. Their trials became famed in the history of U.S. radicalism. The first, at which the prosecution wheeled in a life-size plaster effigy of Chief Aderholt, was declared a mistrial because a juror went insane. At the close of the second, Beal and six others were convicted of second-degree murder. All jumped bail and fled to Russia...
...Kenmore has a double-bill this week a good murder mystery and a new actress named Suzy Delair. Of course, Suzy is also highly involved in the murder mystery, but Suzy's screen personality will demand some attention...
...vaudeville when Jenny gets an offer for a contract from a big movie producer who happens also to be an aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks a bottle over his head. The police pick up her husband for murder but Jenny decides to keep mum to both her husband and the police, thinking that her confession would destroy his love. Her failure to confess causes much agony, but the film has a neat solution...