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While California's new Governor was pardoning the country's most famed political prisoner, the country's most famed criminal prisoner last week also obtained a degree of freedom. The family of Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone paid to the U. S. $37,692.29 on his bill of $50,000 in fines and $7,692.29 court costs for the offense of income tax evasion, for which he has served six years, eight months of a ten-year sentence, since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz...
...implication of these outbursts was that Secretary Ickes did not represent U. S. opinion, would soon be cast into "oblivion." Apparently unaware how much that opinion has changed since the State Department last year apologized for Mayor LaGuardia's onslaught on the Führer as a "gangster," Germany's Foreign Office last week sent bland, blond Charge d'Affaires Thomsen to the State Department with a "sharply worded" demand for another apology...
Pace Quickened. Germany's 700,000 Jews have been tortured physically, robbed of homes and properties, denied a chance to earn a living, chased off the streets. Now they are being held for "ransom," a gangster trick through the ages. But not only Jews have suffered. Out of Germany has come a steady, ever-swelling stream of refugees, Jews and Gentiles, liberals and conservatives, Catholics as well as Protestants, who could stand Naziism no longer. TIME'S cover, showing Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel...
...oppose Mr. Thompson for the Republican nomination, respectable citizens drafted Dwight H. Green, former U. S. District Attorney who put Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone behind bars...
Sirs: ... If TIME has no rule against gangster pictures,* I offer as candidate for your front cover the greatest gangster of our times- the only mobster to hijack a great nation, the only racketeer to shake down an entire race of mankind-Adolf Hitler...