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...husband? Nothing is harder to prove or disprove than "intent" and against her husband Mrs. Mitchell cannot be forced to testify. If despite Max Steuer the Government proves that the sale was not in good faith, handsome, steel-haired Charles Edwin Mitchell may be fined $10,000, clapped in jail for five years. Two good reasons for hiring Lawyer Steuer were 1) there would probably be Jews on the jury; 2) Lawyer Steuer was recently well advertised as an anti-banker lawyer, when he sent Bank of United States' Banksters Marcus & Singer to jail...
...associates. Agents Perrins in London, Anslinger in Washington, Sirks in Rotterdam, Thomas in Berlin. Smooth teamwork among these four gentlemen resulted in the arrest last March of an affable Greek known as Elie Eliopoulos in Mannheim, Germany. M. Eliopoulos was returned to Athens. After five months in a Greek jail, M. Eliopoulos sent word that he would like to talk with Thomas Wentworth Russell, who promptly sent a special officer from Egypt and suggested that a U. S. agent proceed from Paris. Elie Eliopoulos' confession uncovered one of the greatest international drug rings discovered in years...
...half-hour speech, the Prosecutor, Major Harold Shapcott, outlined the Government's case. Because Britain is not at war Lieut. Baillie-Stewart's life was not at stake, but there were ten charges against him. with a maximum penalty of 140 years in jail. On the plea that he was studying for staff college examinations, he had borrowed from the Aldershot Military Library the specifications and photographs of an experimental tank and a new automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored car units. Without special permission he had visited Berlin on leave...
...Reichstag was meeting in the Opera House because the central hall of the Reichstag building had been gutted by incendiary fire, a fire that despite popular murmurings the Nazis have persistently blamed on Communists. Because of the fire every Communist deputy was in jail. So the young Nazis' cry was easily answered : The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act 441-94. Adolf Hitler became Dictator of Germany for four years to come...
...typical Delmar character, the cab driver, George Raft, and the pick-up fall in love. He becomes a garage owner, and they live happily in the suburbs until a hard-boiled society girl overcomes Mr. Raft. At the same time Sylvia Sidney's jealous husband breaks out of jail and goes to the house in the suburbs prepared to kill his wife's paramour. Here matters become complicated but the mud sinks to the bottom of the vortex, and Sylvia Sidney and George Raft miraculously emerge, triumphant...