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...murderer . . . goes out to kill others to gain selfish ends or because of a personal injury he will not forgive. . . . You were called by your country to disarm a dangerous and skillful enemy who [conquers by] torture and murder. . . . I do not call a policeman who must shoot a gangster . . . a murderer any more than the law does. Perhaps in the terrible business of war, murderous thoughts will take possession of us. . . . God, I am sure, will forgive . . . many of our weaknesses...
...France wants a pact with Spain, but not with "gangster Franco ... the ally of Hitler and the enemy of France." (In the diplomatic gallery Spanish Envoy José de Sangroniz listened stonily. From the Assembly came the day's noisiest cheers, shouts: "Très bien! Très bien...
...once Ernie stands still enough to see the static pity of London's East End, and to know Ada's battered desire for security, he gets an angry fever for easy money, goes to work for Gangster Jim Mordinoy (George Coulouris). What he sees and learns under Mordinoy is anything but comforting, and where he finally winds up is not in heroics but in police court...
...Lublin government to govern them. Polpress, the Lublin government's new semiofficial press agency, reported violent resistance to Lublin's efforts to draft its new army, assassination of officials who tried to enforce the decree. Lublin blamed "internal delegates" of the Polish Government in Exile for these "gangster attacks," threatened them with "the full rigor of the law." "All good Poles," said Polpress, greeted the draft with enthusiasm...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 46, old-time sharpshooting, jail-breaking U.S. public enemy No. 1, now behind bars in Stateville (Ill.) on a 99-year-term for kidnapping, sued 20th Century-Fox for producing and distributing the film Roger Touhy, Gangster, Balaban & Katz for exhibiting it. Charges: libel, slander and violation of privacy. His bill for bad billing...