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...acre Ellis H. Spiegl ranch near Chualar, FBI agents searched 26 cabins, arrested Shunso Matsuda. Foreman of a gang of 250 Japanese laborers, Matsuda calls himself "the Emperor of Chualar...
...Roosevelt had a few old friends in to dinner. They included members of the "Cuff Links Gang" (who had campaigned with him back in 1920, when he was running for Vice President). He cut his private birthday cake, bearing just 21 candles, tuned in on an hour-long nation-wide broadcast to hear welders sizzling in factories, riveters clattering, presses crunching, a chorus singing Yellow Rose of Texas. Said he into the microphone himself: "In the midst of sorrow, suffering . . . and death . . . the day itself and the evening have brought with them a great reassurance. ... I am very sure that...
Sullivan eventually tastes life. Home again from a social worker's tour of hobo jungles with The Girl, he is unexpectedly robbed, stuffed into a freight car headed south, railroaded into a prison chain gang, and officially pronounced dead. In prison he learns the value of making people laugh, returns to Hollywood a sadder & wiser director (especially after a punishing sojourn in the prison sweatbox...
...hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time just what is going on. Then comes more comedy, until again there is a sudden change of scene and mood, and the action is in a chain-gang prison camp, thoroughly brutal and realistic, without the slightest trace of comedy. Then back to the light note, a note on which the film ends. There are also inserted in the picture, with no bearing on the plot, a Negro revival meeting and a melodramatic struggle on top of a speding...
...share in the firm and marry old Mr. Chevalier's niece. Before he succeeds, readers have been given a lively picture of U.S. business and municipal mores at their most ruggedly individualistic-against a backdrop of clipper ships, teeming wharves, swells, belles, fire fighting, and the Five Points gang wars...