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...unmistakably, although he is called simply "The Old Man") facing a revolt of his workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some sex. Moments of engrossing writing; moments of shrewd, imaginative staging scarcely salvage the stormy whole. The title is derived from a strip which runs materials through the factory from the tangled elements to the finished automobile, ready for F.O.B...
...Public interest, that's why. We have a right to know. What did little Nathan say in jail when papa broke the news? What does the new mama think of her famed stepchild? How would you like to bring up a murderer? Will she see him? Will she kiss him? Will she forgive? LOVES LEOPOLD IN SPITE OF FAMILY FAME. That's what I want. Sex. Sin. Brave little woman...
...Sure. Great. Where is he? In jail. Great. Why? Because he murdered. Swell. His father gets married. Do they drag the story out again for me-FIEND'S FATHER FINDS MATE...
...Deputy Jacques Duclos, Communist leader, the law awarded six sentences totaling 30 years and six fines totaling 18,000 francs ($540); to Deputy Andre Marty, famed Red, the law gave ten years in jail and a fine of 6,000 francs ($180); René Bellenger and Henri Barbe received lesser terms. All the sentences were for fomenting disorder...
When the Tsar abdictated in 1917, M. Trotzky left the U. S. for Russia, but was arrested and taken ashore by the British at Halifax and kept in jail until the Provisional Government of Russia. demanded his release. He entered Russia a few weeks later at about the same time as Lenin, with whom he worked in preparation for the famed November revolution that set the seal of Bolshevism over all the Russias. His part in preparing for the Bolshevist revolution is admittedly hardly less than that of Lenin himself, and he is regarded by some as the greater organizing...