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...down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed a sheriff while helping his chief escape from jail at Lima, Ohio...
...only character who is disappointed in an otherwise happy ending is Mr. Moore. All along he has been hoping that when the Department of Justice announces its gangster ratings for the coming year he will be promoted at least to Public Enemy No. 8. Great is his disappointment when the troupe lands in England and receives a cable that "Moonface" is not wanted at home for anything. Mr. Moore grimaces pathetically, stamps his foot and declares: "I don't know what to make of this Administration...
...Vickers unashamed spoke Sir Jonah Walker Smith, the right honorable member from their naval shipyard district of Barrow-in-Furness. "The investigators of the United States Senate used gangster methods," said Sir Walker with every out ward sign of indignation. "The activities of Sir Charles Craven [Managing Di rector of Vickers-Armstrong's Works & Shipyards] have for their object the finding of as much employment as possible...
They did not. As the months passed everyone in Athens heard that the gangster responsible for the attack was one Georgios Karathanasios. He continued to loaf around Athens cafés puffing a hubble-bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Last week Statesman Venizelos' wounded chauffeur and six retired army officers, members of Statesman Venizelos' private bodyguard called the Republican Defense League, seized Gangster Karathanasios and delivered him to the highly embarrassed warden of the Athens jail...
Many a German gangster is called Dutch. Example: ''Dutch'' Schultz. The Pennsylvania "Dutch" are of German, not Netherland descent. In the rumbling language of the Netherlands (Nederlandsch taal) there is no such word as "Dutch." But it has taken Adolf Hitler to make "Dutch" an issue among phlegmatic Netherlanders...