Word: romm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...
...have agreed that, after Stalin had been assassinated, Germany was to get the Ukraine and Japan Eastern Siberia, with the headline-making addition last week that Japan be given the island of Sakhalin from which she would get "oil for the Japanese Navy to make war on America."Red Romm, A charge had been made by Prosecutor Vishinsky that many letters between Radek and Trotsky were carried by Vladimir Romm, erstwhile Washington correspondent of Izvestia ("News"), the official government newspaper. Comrade Romm was far enough down the list of witnesses so that before he was called a group of leading...
...Washington.""So!"cried the prosecutor. "So you were correspondent for Izvestia and special correspondent for Trotsky?" Red Romm: "Yes." "Communist Al Smith." The Al Smith of the Soviet Union is Leon Trotsky. He might have been and Communists in numbers running very high think he ought to have been and should be Dictator of Russia today instead of Stalin. Keynoted Trotsky, who issued a fresh statement every few hours in Mexico on the Moscow trial: "Stalin's crimes put Caesar Borgia in the shade!" The brains of Trotsky are strictly first-class. Scathingly he asked why the letters...
...report showed that Harris and Romm employed men who were sent to the Harvard Library with lists of books to be pilfered and were paid a small commission for the deed...
...thief, Benjamin Barris, pleaded guilty on December 21 to grand larcency, covering five indictments. His arrest followed that of H. B. Clarke in Lancaster, Pa., another member of the ring. The latter gave information which led to the arrest of C. J. Romm, another New York bookseller, now in prison...