By John Donovan
The tabloid newspapers of 1930s America dubbed them The Irish Mafia but they preferred the title the Boys’ Club. They were members of an elite group of some of the biggest names in Hollywood, all of whom proudly declared their Irish heritage.
The core of the group comprised the legendary movie stars Jimmy Cagney and Spencer Tracy and the well-known actors, Patrick O’Brien and Frank McHugh. They were major Hollywood players – rich, famous and influential. However, the original reason the group first came together was to raise funds for a small church in Hartford.
McHugh was sent a request by the parish priest to provide his autograph and that of fellow Irish American actors Cagney, Spencer and O’Brien for a church auction.
we re getting boring stuff and not even experimental mistakes(?) because people are afraid of getting cancelled
Well, duh.
Starting in the early 1930s and for some 30 years afterwards, Hollywood worked under its own self-imposed Production Code. In other words, Hollywood censored itself with the idea being to keep movies clean and free of controversy from religions groups and the like. The rules included small stuff like a man and woman could not be seen sharing a bed (even if married), to bigger stuff like crime cannot pay, no homosexuality, no overt eroticism (a kiss could only last so many seconds).
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HELLO AMERICA! People from every corner of the U.S. are waking up to news of gun shooting, desperate moves on civic organization even displaying signs of the Nazi Germany and challenging the reports that over six million Jews were murdered during the holocaust. The nation is not only trying to survive under the attack of the “virus” but desperately attempting to control the explosive, combative voices steaming angrily from various racial communities.
Mini civil wars are suddenly spreading throughout various communities from coast to coast, especially within southern states. Former president Donald Trump continues to paint billboards with his Hitler type expressions of hate and determination to change “Democracy” into Trumpism. There is no Republican Party of Lincoln, simply a wildering broken organization under a sick power group representing only hate, racial separation and big business ruling millions of simple, uneducated people believing and programmed w
The history of how Virginia acquired its first electric chair
Virginia s ultimate sanction was carried out for more than a century on an oak chair from Trenton, N.J. used to execute 267 people who were deemed too vile or dangerous to live among us.
Their limbs and torsos bound by straps and heads crowned with a metal helmet and brine-soaked sponge, the last moments and thoughts of some of the state s most egregious criminals were spent in an electric chair first installed at the Virginia State Penitentiary in 1908.
If the chair was a symbol of extreme, immutable justice, it was also a tool of racial intimidation for much of its history. In modern times, a more diverse group of offenders were electrocuted or killed by injection on a gurney first used in 1995.