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...Britain-born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...
...Truman was mighty glad; there was no one he would rather have around than George. Congress was gone and there would be a lull, but he needed all the help, advice and laughs he could get. So it was good to have George back with the rest of the "gang...
...good pupil, especially at math, Nine likes to classify his knowledge (flags, airplanes, military ranks). Beginning to develop a conscience, Nine takes blame if he thinks he deserves it, but has the inner resources to get along without praise. Nine does not want to be babied, favors his gang over his family...
...Georgia, this is a major calamity. In the past five years Georgia has come a long way from the Tobacco Road and Chain Gang state the country had long way from the Tobacco Road and Chain Gang state the country had long considered it. Spearheaded by such people as Ellis Arnall, Lillian Smith, and perhaps the most progressive press of any state in the Union, Georgia has become the inspiration for all those who work and dream of a forward-looking, democratic, South. The nomination of Talmadge, which is tantamount to election, puts in jeopardy all the advances made since...
...critical raves when released in Paris last March. Ivan, Part II, said Kultura i Zhizn, would not be released because it was "antihistorical and anti-artistic," actually dared to show Ivan "not as a progressive statesman, but as a maniacal villain raging in a circle of a gang of young madcaps...