Word: stoolpigeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been carefully described by Japanese as a strictly "spontaneous, autonomous state set up by Chinese"- but after "General" Yin vanished the Japanese commander in North China, Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, made no bones about officially appointing Yin's successor, put in an even more abject Chinese stoolpigeon for Japan, one Mr. Chi Tseng...
...labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist into a spying stoolpigeon...
...that he has been mistaken. A Pennsylvania coal miner with nothing on his mind except his girl Anna (Karen Morley), he is so dismayed when she runs off with a company policeman that he gets blind drunk and staggers into a meeting of his union. There a hired agitator, stoolpigeon for a racketeering labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads of their union are double-crossing them. All this means to Joe is a chance for the fight which suits his mood but when...
Coal Miner Joe Kovarsky (Alan Baxter), jobless because he had been wrongly accused of participation in a plant bombing, is given a cruel choice. Either he must turn stoolpigeon on his fellow-workers, or the mine boss will deny Joe's wife the services of the company doctor in childbed. Joe does the human rather than the idealistic thing. His treachery is ultimately uncovered by his associates, and Joe departs from home and friends, a remorseful exile...
...days later, Pinkerton men and a city detective in a police car with a Georgia license, acting on stoolpigeon information, followed a car with three men in it to the middle of Williamsburg bridge. Suddenly the pursued car stopped. The men jumped out, began throwing things over the railing into the river. When the gang was subdued, four gold bars with the Brooklyn firm's mark on them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were...