Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alley back of his Minneapolis apartment house at 5:41 o'clock one afternoon last December, Editor Walter Liggett was riddled by five machine-gun slugs. Liggett's weekly tabloid, Mid-West American, had made a business of regularly denouncing the "alliance" between the underworld and Minneapolis and Minnesota officialdom. More recently, he had violently broken with his old political crony, Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking...
...tells the story of three old bachelors whose moribund routine is upset by the will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets Girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl"; wholesome, mild and quite safe. The humor is light and fairly well paced. It's nice quiet reassuring amusement with a mellowness apparently aimed straight at the maiden aunt...
...country is going to pot (which we don't think it is), it is not because Lindbergh has left us. A run-out by one harried and frightened prominent citizen does not indicate that the mass of decent people are in danger of being engulfed by the underworld...
...begins to look as if New York is the only art center of the nation sufficiently tolerant to allow it. Roland Young is about the only excuse for "A Touch of Brimstone" even if the title is clever. Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" is a poetic dramatization of the underworld as it looks to our Mr. Anderson; a very touching and quite superior play...
...York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine had a theory all his own. To him the murder of Amberg and the assault on the Flegenheimer gang were plainly the outcroppings of a race war in the underworld-Italians v. Jews. Accordingly, he sent his men out to find Charles Luciana, called "Lucky" because he is one of the few men to survive a "ride." "Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their...