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When they got Dan into prison at last, the British tried to change him from one wing of the prison to another. But Dan would not go. Not until they lugged in a machine gun and trained it on Dan. That decided him to walk. In jail he was elected a Deputy in 1923, so why should not Tipperary elect Dan Breen...
...would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through the cedar-clothed hills and up past Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee meet, pushed Mr. Frank and his band. Sheriff Blair rubbed his palms, announced that Cell 13 of the Harlan County jail was happily empty, and that he would "not hesitate to fill it with New York writers...
...Trial, Lawyer Fly opened the case by gloomily reminding Judge Mack that in the past few years he had been called upon to jail several humble citizens for restraining trade but the defense hardly winced for this suit is civil, not criminal. Lawyers Fly & Rice are not new to trust busting. Besides sugar, Mr. Fly has been after the Asphalt Shingle and Roofing industry. Before that he broke up a combination of rivet, nut & bolt makers. Mr. Rice won his anti-trust spurs against a chicken combine...
...allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates his drunkenness, and is caught red-handed. To save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast as a hero, is the most disagreeable exponent of brute force on the screen. Unlike Mr. George Bancroft, his forcefulness is simply illmannered, his strength merely churlish...
...Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail...