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...have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first love." And then he leers. "Only from...
...Rustler. In Omaha, police looked for the man who rang Irwin Chapman's doorbell, pointed a pistol at him, growled, "I want that," made off with his son's rocking horse...
...colony had received 83,290 prisoners. Each convict had to work out his stretch at something close to slave labor, either on a private farm or on state works. Brutality drove many to escape and outlawry, so the old petty larcenist became the new bushranger-a combination of rustler and highwayman. In the public mind, he also lost his criminal record and became one who "robbed the rich and helped the poor, and never harmed a lady...
...John J. Teal, anthropologist extraordinary, is successful in his mission, it will be a tremendous blow to our dairy, textile and packing industries. Nevertheless, all the best to the "Arctic Rustler...
Whispers & Whips. The records of Rafael Trujillo's early years have disappeared-the dictator has seen to that. But tales are whispered. Dominicans say that young Rafael was a cattle rustler and a pimp, that at one time or another he was arrested for theft, forgery, rape. Intelligent and ambitious, he joined the constabulary set up by the occupying U.S. Marines, quickly rose to major. After the Marines departed (1924), he became head of the army. In 1930, he proclaimed himself a presidential candidate, used his soldiers to break up the opposition. He won handily...