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...Hoover flew the scrawny captive to St. Paul, left him to be tried for the $100,000 kidnapping of Brewer William Hamm, hurried back to Washington. Last week Director Hoover swooped down on Toledo, Ohio, led a dozen agents to an apartment house at dawn, captured Karpis' fellow gangster, crippled Harry Campbell...
...office." "But the newspapers will publish that he did exhibit them on the floor," insisted Senator Byrnes, continuing with the Republican release: "Sarcastically-I can hear him now-Sarcastically Dickinson referred to the Roosevelt cure of slaughtering food animals, restricting the growing of grain. Then he said: 'Every gangster, every counterfeiter, every dope peddler now incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary not only lives better'-The writer of the Republican National Committee put these words in-he said with studied deliberation. . . ." Blushing to the roots of his white hair, Senator Dickinson made for the door...
...second feature, "Man Hunt," with William Gargan and Marguerite Churchill, is amusing enough, plays new variations on the theme of the small-town reporter and the not-too-inhuman gangster. The bill is more than satisfactory for that reading period pressure on the head. Sharp eyes may notice that the bank set in the first film serves as the sherifi's office in the second...
That police had finally nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported...
...That since "officials of the State of Minnesota have long sought to restrain the Press in the performance of its functions" and since "the oppressions of the Press have been characterized by a campaign of violence against editors criticizing improper political-gangster alliances, culminating in the murder of Walter Liggett . . . the Press of this country should resist the attempts of such alliances in Minnesota or any other State to abridge the freedom of the Press...