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was an exposé of political corruption in the 1920s, and was considered one of the models for the
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to read the script and comment (at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los
Angeles High School). Today the "Gee, that's swell" dialogue of early 1930s films might be considered one to laugh at, but this (according to Hahn at least) was the way he and his fellow students talked. He wrote
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