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.
- Racketeering is a comparatively new word in the American language, but an old bug bear in American history.
- 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.
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