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...first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what...
...formula common to all recent pictures starring George Bancroft, the spectacle of a strong man fighting great odds alone is presented here so jerkily and melodramatically that the job of making it seem real is more than Bancroft can handle. There are times when, as an Italian contractor trying to get into society, he is fairly funny, but his machinations to win the love of a lady of the upper classes are absurd. The ending-in which he goes without his reward-will disappoint fans waiting for an amatory fadeout. Best shot: Bancroft tying a dinner...
Editor Peter A. Stone of American Contractor: "During the year 1930 the volume of building construction work materializing will be greater than...
...Into a Memphis, Tenn., department store walked James D. Smith of Corinth, Miss., asked for credit and a charge account. For reference he gave "Herbert Hoover, the White House." The President, queried by the store, responded that Mr. Smith was a "good risk," that he was the contractor who had built the Hoover home at Palo Alto...
Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...