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Behind the glass enclosure, the radio engineer sends the speaker's voice out across the city into the homes of listening millions.

10 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:03:59 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- In our glamor division, there's Mary Astor, who brings her loveliness and talent to the role of Lee Morgan.

- Otto Kruger displays his genius for the sinister and changes only his first name in playing Al Kruger.

- We raise the curtain now and the Lux Radio Theater presents Edward G. Robinson in Bullets or Ballots, with Mary Astor, Humphrey Bogart and Otto Kruger.

- A radio station in a large eastern city.

- At a table, in one of the smaller studios, a man reads earnestly from a typewritten page.

- Behind the glass enclosure, the radio engineer sends the speaker's voice out across the city into the homes of listening millions.

- The man nears the end of his speech.

- So, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, there are a thousand rackets.

- Rackets which are forcing prices beyond the reach of the poor, looting business, food, laundry, poultry, dry cleaning.

- And still, the American people let the racketeer go free.

- Men like Al Kruger, protected against the law, returned from mock trials to collect their share of the 200 million dollar plunder taken each year from this city alone

[...]

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Bullets or Ballots (1939) Sound Clip

Bullets or Ballots (1939)Quotes with sound clips from Bullets or Ballots - Lux Radio Theatre play originally aired on April 17, 1939.

Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)

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