Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investigating that battalion of goons and gorillas, the Senate Civil Liberties Committee in 1937 discovered that 37 of them had served time in the State reform atory; four had been sentenced for murder, 14 for manslaughter, three for malicious shooting with intent to kill; three had served in the Federal pen and 64 had been indicted locally, mostly for crimes of violence, ranging from robbery to murder...
...endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...
...first Bob Wood was sympathetic with the New Deal. He voted for Roose velt twice, approved AAA, SEC, Social Security, many another reform. But he began to part company with the New Deal. He gagged at the Third Term. He gagged at Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. When America First gave him something political to work for, he threw himself into it with a will...
That the motion picture industry could stand a good deal of reform is common knowledge. But the way to bring about such reform, does not seem to lie in the direction the present committee is taking. It looks as if the investigators, not the movie-makers are in need of investigation...
...Order, were the best-organized centers of resistance. Twenty thousand Chetniks (Serb revolutionaries) held the hills of their country, blew up strategic railways. In Norway mass arrests continued all week. Each dawn Gestapo trucks routed out sleepy citizens, took them to prisons already full to bursting. Courtrooms and reform schools were commandeered for the overflow...