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Equally divided among the mob, and sauced to their taste...
...killing to start a one-day corner on the gold market. When President Grant announces that the U. S. Treasury will release unlimited quantities of gold to stabilize the price, Fisk is ruined. Conveniently, at this crisis in his affairs, he is shot to death by one of a mob of brokers who have just survived "Black Friday." He dies repentant, clutching the pretty paw of Josie Mansfield (Frances Farmer), the obscure little actress whom he has made the belle of New York and who really loves Nick Boyd...
...They Won't Forget, Director Mervyn Le Roy uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular...
...mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that it's over, Andy, I wonder if he really...
...Tennessee Congressman (1919-33), having been allowed to keep the floor for four hours. although the rules impose a one-hour limit. Previously he set another record as a Federal Circuit judge, hearing 12,000 cases in eight years and being reversed only 18 times. Once, while a lynch mob was besieging a jail, he tucked his night shirt into his trousers, hurried to the scene, announced: "This court is now in session. Anyone who violates the court's orders will be sentenced for contempt." When he ordered the crowd to disperse it meekly obeyed...