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...feds jurisdiction over "juice" (usurious loans), with interest rates some times ranging up to 20% a week, by which sharks and syndicates have milked and bankrupted laboring men and businesses. The Administration also urged passage of a bill sent to Congress by the Justice Department that would make arson a federal offense when the arsonist crosses a state line. This was aimed at racketeers, who, according to the National Board of Fire Underwriters, are believed to have been behind 124 business fires, in which insurance totaled $16 million, in 17 states in the past ten years...
When the Russians finally broke through the city's defenses, Von Lehndorff needed all his piety and faith during six days of rape, arson and looting. He was stunned by "these maddened youngsters, fifteen, sixteen-years-old, flinging themselves like wolves on the women without really knowing what it's all about. All this has nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with any particular nation or race-it is man kind without God, the caricature of man." Very soon "none of the women had any strength left to resist. In a few hours a change came...
Artist Gray defends both Annie's criminality and her far-righteousness as an accurate reflection of life. "Sweetness and light-who the hell wants it?" he says. "What's news in the newspaper? Murder, rape and arson. That's what stories are made of." As for Annie's philosophy, it is "just good, standard Americanism that people are brought up on. Annie is tougher than hell, with a heart of gold and a fast left, who can take care of herself because she has to. She's controversial, there's no question about that...
...intelligence information in a matter of hours from all parts of the world and has been able to maintain a constant surveillance of the U.S. Communist Party, is it not also capable of maintaining a surveillance of terroristic groups and persons subverting the Constitution of the United States by arson, bombings and murder of civil rights workers...
Each government tried to make propaganda capital out of the perfidy of the other. Hastily assembling a delegation of foreign correspondents, India raced them to relief camps in Assam, where 50,000 Hindus and Christians had fled to escape Moslem persecution, arson, and murder. It was not easy to assess the accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort...