Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collaborationists, said Crawford, are not necessarily quislings or traitors but industrialists who "expanded their production for the Germans" or who got "in trouble with radical labor leaders." The underground was made up largely of Communists, young people and characters from the underworld who robbed ten peaceful French families for every train they blew up. A "conservative" French friend told Crawford that France was so prosperous under the Nazis that "if these conditions had continued a year and a half longer, too many people, perhaps half of them, would have been willing to settle for things as they were...
...youth is concerned, the test is a simple one: there are certain types of literature which on their face are revealed as lewd and disgusting productions. About these there can be no question. But these types are rarely found in bookstores, their distribution being handled largely by underworld characters...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...
...plot of "Missing Girls" is closely autobiographical, for its author, Matin Mooney, was a New York newspaper man who period into that city's underworld ten years ago and was martyred by a jail sentence for insisting on the journalistic principle of refusing to reveal his sources of information. For all who remember this stirring episode in American newspaper history, "Missing Girls," featuring inimitable performances by such Hollywood notables as Roger Pryor, and Muriel Evans, is a must...
...Underworld. In Great Falls, Mont., whoever took Mrs. J. E. Grady's three steaks left 60 red ration points for her on the kitchen table. In Kansas City, whoever made off with S. W. Porter's car got with it a collection of religious tracts and Bibles. In Philadelphia, whoever looted Juggler Walter Burns's car got an assortment of Indian clubs, colored wooden balls, spinning plates, battered hats, trumpet...