Word: gangsterisms
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Show Them No Mercy. When Zanuck started the gangster cycle five years ago, censors had not yet ruled that picture makers must not show the manner in which a crime is committed. This story obeys the new rule by beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around...
...special attention in the taxation program of the Federal Government on account of my political attitude, but I do not think so. I believe the Government should be given due credit for robbing everybody with the utmost impartiality. . . . The methods of the tax collector are largely those of the gangster and gunman. You cannot argue with the tax collector any more than with any other racketeer. The Treasury Department holds a gun to your head and you either come across or get taken for a ride...
Yesterday it was Dutch Shultz Flagenheimer and his two bodyguards. His life also was a succession of cruel martyrdoms, a continual flight from the criminally libelous ( as proved in the courts many a time) epithet of Gangster and Racketeer and Public Enemy. Only the newspapers were polite enough to pre-attach the modest adjective "alleged...
...Ethiopia, in defiance not only of Haile Selassie but of the opinion of the world, one course of action alone remains to be taken. Sanctions, a word which in the hands of journalists has run the gamut of meaning from embargos to war, must be placed upon the international gangster to bring him to his knees...
Thus the two deaths provide a final example of the gangster methods which filled at least an interesting chapter in United States history. Even though the senator himself introduced this mode of government which caused his death, however, a democracy proves itself less effective when it sacrifices normal weapons for those of steel...