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...Chain Gang, Black Legion makes no effort to mollify its message. Robert Lord's vigorous story investigates the Legion from three angles: its effect on Tay lor, its purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot: A radio dramatization of Taylor's arrest handled by Director...
...Article 93 makes punishable by court-martial "any person subject to military law" who commits manslaughter, mayhem, arson, larceny, embezzlement, sodomy, other capital crimes. By Article 95, any officer "convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be dismissed from the service." By Article 96, a court-martial is called for "all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and military discipline...
...Poorhouse." Despite their respective advantages in size and population, Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners...
...York Bond Club held its annual shindig at Sleepy Hollow, enlivened as usual by publication of the Bawl Street Journal, expert parody of the Wall Street Journal. Hailed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as a sure sign of recovery was a sharp drop in the arson rate.* But the most important convention of the week was the 44th annual meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute...
Twice in a decade First Church burned down. Indicted for arson the first time, Fundamentalist Norris blamed the "liquor crowd," was acquitted. After the second fire, in 1929, he raised money for a big new church in downtown Fort Worth. First Baptist Church now claims 10,000 members or enough to make it the nation's biggest white congregation...