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Today's racketeers, dealing in millions of dollars, would scorn the modest sums involved in historical racketeering.

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:23 in the radio play.

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- Following the revolution, American vessels in the Mediterranean were plundered and their crews thrown into slavery so frequently...

- The United States, to continue commerce in those waters, signed a treaty with the pirates ruler, the sultan of Algiers.

- Uncle Sam paid eight hundred thousand dollars for the ransom of imprisoned sailors.

- And for years paid an additional twenty three thousand dollars annually as a guarantee for future safety.

- Until our Navy, under Stephen Decatur, forever ended this racket of the Barbary pirates.

- Today's racketeers, dealing in millions of dollars, would scorn the modest sums involved in historical racketeering.

- And only by a militant public resistance, such as that shown in tonight's play - Bullets or Ballots, can America purge herself of these internal parasites.

- In his screen characterizations, Edward G. Robinson has often lived outside the law.

- But tonight he walks a straight and narrow path as he pins a badge inside his coat, and becomes, as he did in the picture, detective Johnny Blake.

- An established air personality because of his own program big town..

- This fast-talking, fist-swinging favorite is from Warner brothers studio, and will soon appear in confessions of a Nazi spy.

[...]

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Around this town, the only reason friends pat you on the back is to find an easy place to break it.
You're a friend, aren't you? -I guess you're dumb enough to think so.
Yeah, that sounds good... Too good.
Never fails, does it? When mugs get in the jam, they always start off by knighting each other.
Now... sit down, Johnny. You know, you're a pretty smart guy. -Yeah, my mother used to say I was going to be president.
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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