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...Healy's portrayal of an American news hound contributes a great deal. An alarming atmosphere is created at the very beginning by a scary voice from the nether reaches of the theatre warning queasy patrons to get out before they're carried out--or words to that effect. "Mad Love" is pretty macabre, though, and brilliantly photographed, and we highly recommend...
Rosenbaum Grain Corp. has one of the largest storage capacities (18,000,000 bu.) of any grain house in the U. S. On busy days fast-talking Manny Rosenbaum. a cigaret hanging on his nether lip, keeps the grain pit lively with his orders. On dull days the pit brokers sometimes amuse themselves at his expense by parodying the German melody "O Tannenbaum" with loud choruses of "O Rosenbaum, O Rosenbaum...
...even though the Chinese freighter's cargo was chiefly coal, she could not steam to California without taking on food. In almost any port on the China coast she would be recognized. Shrewd Captain Taudien decided to put her in at the Japanese port of Dairen on the nether tip of Manchukuo. Clumsy, he ran her aground...
...just resentment can be aroused. But when, as in the present case, it becomes increasingly evident that the unions are permitting themselves to be led by Communists and other discredited radicals intent only on fomenting trouble, the antagonism of the general public is inevitably aroused. Between the upper and nether millstones of mob violence and popular antipathy, reason stands small chance of effecting a just settlement, and both Labor and Capital stand to be the losers...
...lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint...