Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely to become "stir-simple," a malignant disease of the mind brought by resignation to the monotony of institutionalization. Now, time, considered abstractly, is nothing...
...poorest vied with the richest in throwing their earnings and their savings into a cauldron of land and stock speculation. In that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years to remember-those fool's paradise years before the crash came. Downward Spiral. "This nation slipped spirally downward, ever downward, to the inevitable point when the mechanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need...
SAWDUST CAESAR-George Seldes- Harper ($3). Well-documented record of the rise and rule of Mussolini, by a one-time European correspondent and author of Freedom of the Press...
Show Them No Mercy. When Zanuck started the gangster cycle five years ago, censors had not yet ruled that picture makers must not show the manner in which a crime is committed. This story obeys the new rule by beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around...
...illegal branch of The Sons of Liberty, originally a mechanics' society, urging demonstrations, boycotts, violence, to force changes in British laws that blocked colonial enterprise. Although concessions were granted in 1770, wealthy merchants were not won over to the idea of independence, preferred the handicaps of British rule to the dangers of widespread unrest for which the mechanics were responsible. Consequently, "the middle class radicals, among them Samuel Adams, deliberately excluded mechanics from the revolutionary councils and destroyed the Sons of Liberty." Yet their achievement was progressive despite such double-dealing: "Untiringly and systematically, with a rare understanding...