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There were some who talked like Corn &Hog Raiser Carroll Brown of Oskaloosa, Iowa. "When the farmer asks too much," he reasoned, "the rest of the guys may gang up on us some of these days and we'll get nothing." There were those who felt like C. B. Skipper of Georgia: "The Brannan Plan? I'm against it. I don't like to feel that anybody is giving me anything. The way things work now, I don't feel like anybody is giving me a handout." And there were, above all, farmers who spoke...
Most Japanese, shocked by Communist violence, thought the general's action overdue. "Well, MacArthur lost his temper at last," said a maritime union leader. "I would have lost my temper, too, at that Red gang." Occupation officials were pleased that MacArthur had neutralized Communist leadership without driving the party underground by banning it completely. It was fitting, they felt, that Japan's top Communists had been given the same purge treatment applied earlier to the nation's World War II militarists. "We've clipped their fangs scientifically," said one U.S. officer...
...yelling. Tommy and the three girls got into the car and drove off as the cops began shooting. But the policemen caught Larry Collins, the 14-year-old recruit. He talked. A little later the police converged on Peggy Byrns's house, found the rest of the gang. All five were charged with robbery, the original trio with murder. None showed any remorse...
...children grow up to be bandits, playing on the streets. They cannot be scolded or punished." Like other slum children, Puerto Rican boys get into trouble. They fight each other, run away from home, cut school; sometimes there are knifings and rapes. But there are seldom robberies or gang assaults. And once they learn English, teachers report, Puerto Rican children are responsive and quick to learn...
...kind-hearted gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast...