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Brig. Gen. John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner to Haiti, arrived on the Ancon, pointed to press reports of a Brooklyn gang murder, had this to say of the land of King Christophe: "You can go anywhere in Haiti and be safe, and that is more than you can do in some countries...
...This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
This vivid expose of gambling dens and brothels, with their picaresque inmates, falls short of melodrama without losing excitement. The faithful account of all the greatest gang leaders sometimes runs to a monotony of horrors, but is soon varied with naive tong wars, and prosperous "fences"-fat women who bought and sold the loot of robbers...
...Drag Net. A city gang leader is on trial for murder. A stoolpigeon takes the stand to testify against him. In a hotel room opposite the courtroom, a man is toying with a golf club; good-naturedly, he steps to the window, picks up a rifle, shoots the stoolpigeon. That is the beginning of a lusty underworld melodrama written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime reporter for the New York World, produced by Paramount, acted by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell...
...intends to head in their frontal attack next week are not a battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least, the easily sown kernels of discontent. Governor McMullen feels that the farmers, asserting themselves before the Wall Street gang, can reap at least their political harvest, but the callous press of his native state unites in calling his aspirations fertilizer...