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...their defense, $250,000 was raised, charges of frame-up roared through innumerable demonstrations, Clarence Darrow was rushed to Los Angeles to defend them, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens busied himself trying to work out a compromise. Suddenly, on Dec. 1, 1911, James McNamara confessed. It was the greatest moral shock in U. S. labor history. A thin-faced, impassioned man, with intense blue eyes and a Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle. ... I am guilty, but I did what I did for principle...
Williams, Hansen and Harris took the position that the cessation of United States armament outlays would constitute a severe shock to the economy after the European war was ended. The best way to mitigate the shock would be for the Government to embark on a program of directed, controlled deficit financing. During the armament boom, the national debt can be expected to rise, but this fact should not be permitted to interfere with rational methods of dealing with a possible post-war depression...
Benito Mussolini was speaking, and he was in good form. "I have come to look you in the eye," he said, "and to take your temperature and to break my silence, dear to me especially in wartime." This was his first speech since Nov. 18, when the first shock of terrible Greek counter-attacks had undermined Italian morale. That day he promised grimly: "We shall break Greece's back; whether in two months or twelve months, it little matters...
...moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...
...Smith (RKO Radio) will be a shock to film followers who think that roly-poly British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes) can do no wrong. His first comedy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is run-of-the-mill Hollywood farce, suggests that Hitchcock would do well to stick to melodrama...