Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replace this anti-New Dealer, President Roosevelt appointed handsome, silvery haired Elwood Hamilton, a reliable New Dealer.* Predecessor Dawson shortly argued before Successor Hamilton that the New Deal law requiring prison-made goods to be labeled as such was unconstitutional. Not so, decided Judge Hamilton. Next, Lawyer Dawson attacked the Guffey Coal Act, lineal descendant of the NRA coal code which he, as judge, had declared unconstitutional. Sound as a drum, Judge Hamilton last week called a second strike against his predecessor...
...twists. Sylvia Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in love with a winning stranger (Alan Baxter) only to learn, when he begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts...
...Producer Zanuck got his idea for this picture from TIME'S story on the life of the Maryland physician who served a prison term for doctoring John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 4 & March 18). *"Annie Oakleys'' arc so called because holes are usually punched in them to prevent their being sold...
Should either George or Ryan be convicted today, they will be subject to a prison sentence. Informed sources, however, are rather skeptical about the possibility of a conviction...
...commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested, some sympathy has always attached to the Great Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many a Frenchman her 14 months in prison awaiting trial have seemed unduly severe. She was let out on bail at last (TIME, May 13) but sympathy still enshrouds her. On the advice of Maitre de Moro-Giafferi last week Arlette Stavisky pulled out all the organ stops in a plea for PITY which went to the heart...