Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strapping, handsome Henry Philip Ewald went to Mobile to become executive editor of a new afternoon paper, the Press. A tireless crusader, Editor Ewald launched campaign after campaign against gambling, political corruption, vice. He not only wrote editorials, but poked & pried into the recesses of Mobile's underworld...
Carrying on in the William Powell-Myrna Loy tradition, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell succeed with little effort in becoming entangled in a theft and murder mystery. A mad whirl that includes to murders and two trips to the underworld is started by the theft of a priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast...
...their bungling efforts to adapt themselves to the cramped, precarious life of the barrio, their worse bungling when Juan tries to raise passage money home by peddling marijuana. Living conditions in the barrio, the natives' desperate shifts to make a living, their political tempers, the quarter's underworld are documented by Author Kaufman from firsthand study...
...have our gangs, but so does Hitlerland! We have our robbers, thieves, murderers, etc., but so does Hitler, in fact, each country has its share. However, in addition to the unorganized underworld mobs of each country, Hitler has his own specially organized systematic government gang of plunderers...
...particulars. It proposed this program to destroy Germany's Jews as follows: first impoverish them; this will end in the Jews' having no other means of livelihood than to descend to criminality; "at this stage of development we should therefore face the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld in the same fashion in which ... we exterminate criminals generally?by fire and sword...