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...Racket at the RKO brings Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan face to face in a rough, dynamic crime picture...
Month after month, Chinese-Americans kept the extortion racket secret, not only for fear of reprisals in China but for fear that the U.S. might act against them for giving aid to an enemy. But last week Chinese-American editors and organizations such as San Francisco's Six Companies were bringing Red China's threats into the open. They guessed that $500,000 had been squeezed from New York Chinese, hundreds of thousands more from other colonies all over the U.S. Dozens of new threats were arriving in every big city every...
Universal-International has made a cold-blooded contribution to the current catch of crime-expose pictures. "Raging Tide" fearlessly rips the lid off the world's slimiest racket--commercial fishing. And because this is a factual expose, it takes you right to the spot where dirty work is being done; the action takes place on a fishing smack in the Pacific...
Eisenhower is the only man who can beat Truman, with his 17 million recipients of regular Government checks. The racket department of labor, as distinguished from the sincere and patriotic leaders, back Truman because they think they can get the support from him that they need to hold their jobs . . . If Truman is re-elected . . . nothing Eisenhower can do in Europe will save us from . . . bankruptcy at home...
...contract was the occasion for the-strike, not the cause. Longshoremen had seized an opportunity to revolt against the whole racket-ridden system which surrounds them: the humiliating daily "shape-up" at which they line up for jobs, the gangsters, chiselers and thieves who infest the waterfront as work gang leaders and hiring bosses, forcing longshoremen to pay for the right to work. For years this situation has been tolerated by Union President Ryan, by the New York Shipping Association, which represents the management of 161 steamship lines and other port industries, and by the New York police...