Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buckley's friends last week admitted he might have underworld dealings, but they insisted his record of recent years (investigator for Henry Ford in the Newberry case, special investigator on other cases for the U. S. Government, two years as a radio crusader, winter employment aid) demonstrated that he no longer trod dark paths, was trying to make a moral name for himself...
City Editor Lee promptly filed notice of a $250,000 libel suit, charged that the editorial implied he knew of Lingle's $60,000-a-year underworld operations...
Sweet Mama (First National). Because Alice White is the most attractive blonde of her weight in pictures, the scenes in which she appears are bearable, although this whole production is hackneyed, dull and amateurish. It is an unsuccessful combination of the usual elements of underworld plots; its crisis involves Miss White in efforts to get her sweetheart out of a predicament in which she has involved him by gathering evidence against the owner of the night-club where he works. Typical shot: police car chasing the car in which the hero is being taken for a ride...
...Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
...event, the Tribune said last week, those things "could be important leads into the crimes of the underworld, but their presentation has changed the atmosphere from one of co-operation to one of hostility. . . . The search [for Lingle's murderer] is confused and obstructed by publishers who should be interested in making the pursuit relentless wherever it leads. . . . The decency and honesty of newspaper work in this city is on public trial...