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. Tačiau, 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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Bosas Butler ir Sankt. Louis mašina

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Kai jis ateina į mašinų politikos ir organizuotu nusikalstamumu, Kansas City visada nustelbia St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City taip pat buvo namuose keletą aukšto lygio gangland šaudymus. St. Louis’ paskutinis organizuotas nusikalstamumas lyderis buvo suimtas už kortų. 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, Balandis 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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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 Police history, 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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Antradienį, Lapkritis 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): Tamsi pasaka apie meilę

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Laura (1944) yra istorija apie ambicingą jauną moterį, kurią į žmogžudystės tyrimą įtraukė ir įsimylėję piršliai, ir pavydžios moterys. Laura Hunt, vaizduojama Gene Tierney, yra reklamos vadovas, ruošiantis ištekėti už besikeičiančio viliotojo, Shelby Carpenter, vaizdavo Vincentas Price'as. Norėdami apsunkinti reikalus, jos teta Anne Treadwell įsimylėjo gundytoją

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