Word: talk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bodyguard and mainstay. Now Willie Bioff hobnobs with a Hollywood plutocrat. His dealings with Producer Joe Schenck were the subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about a plot: "In the case of William Bioff, the producers . . . are not responsible directly or indirectly . . . for his present personal predicament. . . . They resent the imputation that they would resort to any such methods...
Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for Germany is supposed to have been cooled by the Hitler-Stalin Deal. But Japan, threatened by an embargo of U. S. exports to her at the next session of the U. S. Congress, faced a tough spot...
Last week, though much of his old ebullience was gone, old "Doc" Cook still held high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...
...hopeful young Lifer Whitsitt has been an exemplary prisoner. Three years ago his excellent behavior got him a break. He was allowed to sell a story he had written of life in prison. Then he began to talk prison officials into letting him ghostwrite crime articles for them. Last month he earned $145 that...
...Good evening, men," Whitsitt may say, "tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news...