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...their say but the wrangle which might well have taken place was postponed in deference to haste. Only major Senate action was to strip the resolution of its eloquent whereases to clauses forbidding shipment of arms to civil-warring Spain, provide a $10,000 fine and five years in prison as maximum penalty for disobedience. It was passed...
...succeed him, Secretary Morgenthau selected Frank Wilson, a keen-looking sleuth with a sharp inquiring nose and glittering spectacles. New Chief Wilson dug up the income tax evasion evidence which sent Al Capone to prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...
...Only Live Once (United Artists). With a smuggled automatic in his hand and the prison doctor as hostage, Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) is on his way out of the death house when his pardon arrives. Prison officials shriek the news at him. Eddie Taylor thinks their statement is a trick for his recapture. Too vivid in his mind is the manner in which he, innocent, was railroaded into his present plight. When the chaplain comes toward him in the fog, anxious to convince him that the pardon is authentic, Eddie shoots him. The chaplain stays on his feet long enough...
...warped, animal hatred of the crowd watching Eddie being taken from the courtroom; the bullfrogs croaking in the pond outside the little inn from which, upon his wedding night, he is tossed out for being an ex-convict; a demonstration of the "electric eye" which detects metal objects upon prison visitors; Eddie and Joan talking through the visitors' grill in the death house; the preparations for a transfusion to save Eddie's life so that he can be electrocuted. For such things and the craftsmanship of Screen Writers Gene Towne and Graham Baker, Yon Only Live Once sets...
...made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving a life term in prison...