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...relentlessly as Inspector Javert dogged Jean Valjean, the Justice Department has dogged the steps of the Aluminum Co. of America. When Alcoa was acquitted of monopoly charges in 1941, the trustbusters appealed their case. Four years later, an appeals court found that Alcoa had, indeed, been a monopoly before the war but it withheld judgment on Alcoa's postwar status until all Government-owned aluminum plants were disposed...
...news vendor's tireless efforts brought their reward. For four years running, Communist provincial headquarters had acclaimed him "Tuscany's Best Unita Salesman," and he had been named inspector over all other Unita salesmen in the Borgo San Lorenzo area. Monti's fine record even led party headquarters to take a tolerant attitude when early this year he failed for the first time to turn in promptly the proceeds of his Unita sales...
...Inspector. As he rose before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at lunch next day in Washington's Statler Hotel, he was the spokesman for the free world. "Our task," said he, "is to present the truth to the millions of people who are uninformed or misinformed or unconvinced . . . We must make ourselves known as we really are-not as Communist propaganda pictures...
Burly, round-faced Jesse Donaldson, the first career Postmaster General in history, a man who climbed to the Cabinet via mail sorter, letter carrier and pistol-packing post-office inspector, had been regarded around the capital as a man who lacked political experience. Members of Congress were beginning to wonder...
Kelly, who usually plays dancing roles in techni-color musicals, does surprisingly well as the protagonist who vows to avenge his father's murder. J. Carroll Naish, who plays the police inspector who never forgets a face, is not particularly memorable himself. In a moving speech in criminal court, however, he presents the moral of the movie: immigrants must be made to understand that in a democracy the police protect and help the people rather than oppress them...