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...hours later police caught the seven murderers driving the Major's car into Madrid. One hundred more suspects were rounded up from the neighborhood of the crime. The authorities stated that they had uncovered a nest of conspirators recruited "from the most sinister Marxist underworld" who called themselves "The Clan of Class Vengeance with Blood." Major Gabaldon's name was claimed to be merely one on a coded "death list" of Franco officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Conspiracy | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Smooth persuasion comes easily to bullnecked, six-foot, 252-pound Jack Bilbo. He was trained in the world's highest powered school of dialectic, the Chicago underworld. Jack Hugo Baruch was born 32 years ago in Berlin, schooled in The Hague, went to the U. S. at 16. In Manhattan he was a Shubert office boy and manager of Manhattan's Bijou Theatre before he changed his name to Bilbo, went to Chicago and fell in with gangster Al Capone in 1926. How close he was to Scarface Al is a moot question. There is no record that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint-Gunner | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Tell No Tales (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A fine Negro wake and a good bit by Gene Lockhart as a gambler, stuck in a stale story about a crusading editor (Melvyn Douglas) who confounds the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...strapping, handsome Henry Philip Ewald went to Mobile to become executive editor of a new afternoon paper, the Press. A tireless crusader, Editor Ewald launched campaign after campaign against gambling, political corruption, vice. He not only wrote editorials, but poked & pried into the recesses of Mobile's underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Mobile | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Carrying on in the William Powell-Myrna Loy tradition, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell succeed with little effort in becoming entangled in a theft and murder mystery. A mad whirl that includes to murders and two trips to the underworld is started by the theft of a priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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