Theodore Roosevelt Wins 6 States in 1912

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After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Ωστόσο, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines

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Metropolis (1927)

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Τον Ιανουάριο 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (affiliate link). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning

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Boss Butler και το St. Louis Machine

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Όταν πρόκειται για την πολιτική της μηχανής και του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος, Κάνσας Σίτι έχει επισκίασε πάντα St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ήταν επίσης το σπίτι σε διάφορες υψηλού προφίλ πυροβολισμοί συμμοριών. St. Louis’ τελευταίου ηγέτη του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος συνελήφθη για χαρτιά. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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Morris Packing Co. Robbers Caught

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21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Απρίλιος 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at

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Louise Brooks στο The Canary Murder Case (1929)

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Η υπόθεση Canary Murder (1929) αρχικά γυρίστηκε σαν ταινία του βωβού κινηματογράφου. Ωστόσο, το εκτελεστικό Paramount Studio σκέφτηκα ότι θα ήταν καλύτερα ως μιλάμε εικόνα. Το στούντιο καθυστερήσει την κυκλοφορία του μέχρι που θα μπορούσε να προσθέσει ήχο στην ταινία. Η προσθήκη του ήχου δεν ήταν χωρίς τις προκλήσεις της. Δυστυχώς, ένας από τους κύριους πρωταγωνιστές της ταινίας, Louise Brooks, had

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Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

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Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Αστυνομία ιστορία, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French

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The Fat Man (1950)

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Since the beginning of commercial film making, production companies are always looking for new content. Film companies have always used popular books as a source of content and inspiration. Since the 1950s, popular television shows provided film adaptations and inspiration. In the early days of talking films, popular radio shows led to many film adaptations. Lum and Abner, Jack Benny,

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St. Louis Police Nab Wild Bunch Members

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Την Τρίτη, Νοέμβριος 5, 1901, St. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for

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Laura (1944): A Dark Tale of Love

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Laura (1944) is the story of an ambitious young woman pulled into the middle of a murder investigation by both amorous suitors and jealous women. Laura Hunt, παρουσιάζεται από τον Gene Tierney, is an advertising executive about to marry a shiftless seducer, Shelby Carpenter, portrayed by Vincent Price. To complicate matters, her aunt Anne Treadwell is in love with the seducer

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1922 Morris Packing Company Robbery

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On the morning of Saturday, Απρίλιος 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time

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