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

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

You can hear this line at 00:04:15 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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

- And again, I say these rackets must be stopped!

- Ladies and gentlemen, I've been ordered by the crime combine to discontinue these broadcasts. The gentleman who phoned added: Or else.

- For his information, I shall continue the broadcast regularly.

[...]

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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