And for years paid an additional twenty three thousand dollars annually as a guarantee for future safety.
7 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:02:12 in the radio play.
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- Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.
- Uncle Sam paid eight hundred thousand dollars for the ransom of imprisoned sailors.
- Until our Navy, under Stephen Decatur, forever ended this racket of the Barbary pirates.
- In his screen characterizations, Edward G. Robinson has often lived outside the law.
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