Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorful Cast. The accused were a strangely assorted crew. Handsome Joe McWilliams, the soapbox fiührer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling...
Less successful in the theater than his younger brother Jerome (My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss), stocky, swart, 39-year-old Edward Chodorov has been more adventurous. Besides landing solidly with his psychological thriller, Kind Lady, he wobbled about in farce (Wonder Boy) and a romance (Those Endearing Young Charms) before turning to polemic in Decision...
Last week a U.S. citizen clippered home from a four-weeks' London powwow with Rank bigshots, full of plans for a British blitz on Hollywood. The man: Manhattan's suave, swart lawyer Morris Ernst. New Dealish Ernst-who was also in Britain to carry out an esoteric "cultural" U.S.-British mission-had persuaded his clients that, to win over the U.S. market, British films must be distributed by the Big Five U.S. producers...
Elected Mayor of Philadelphia last week by a thumping 64,197 majority: short, swart Bernard ("Barney") Samuel, 63, self-made South Philadelphia ward heeler who rose in the Republican machine from doorbell-ringer to mayor. Rejected: sophisticated, billiard-bald Main Liner William C. Bullitt, 52, native of genteel Rittenhouse Square, pre-Munich New Deal Ambassador to the U.S.S.R..and to France...
...Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin...