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Born in Renville County, Minn. 44 years ago. Francis Shoemaker began to show insurgent leanings at 14 when he campaigned for farm organizations. He drifted to Panama to become a gang boss during the Canal's construction. A char ter member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, he was nominated for Vice President in 1924, declined to run. Ac tive in the steel strike of 1919. the packinghouse strikes of 1920, he was for six years editor of the People's Voice at Green Bay, Wis., is still editor of the Organized Farmer of Red Wing, Minn. Five...
...Prince was still alive when tied to the track was unknown, although a doctor discovered poison in his body tissues which seemed to indicate that he was already dead. By then a new theory had arisen, wild as anything in the entire case: Judge Prince was murdered by a gang of professional criminals that had revived the name and the manner of the early igth Century Carbonari. The theory wras voiced officially last week by white-chinned old Henri Chéron, now Minister of Justice. Said...
Best Performance (actor): Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square, Charles Laughton in Henry the VIII, Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang...
Best Production: Farewell to Arms (Paramount), Cavalcade (Fox), 42nd Street (Warners), / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warners), Lady for a-Day (Columbia), Little Women (Radio), She Done Him Wrong (Paramount), Smilin' Thru (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), State Fair (Fox),'Henry the VIII (London Films-United Artists...
...circulation managers themselves are worthy models for such men as Sbar. The manager of the Daily News ran a gang of toughs for his former Chicago employer, personally shot down a competitor, and was promoted to the New York paper for the efficacy of his methods, so drastic that they often consisted in dumping large hijacked assignments of rival newspapers into the Chicago river...