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...crime 20%," declared Senator Copeland, "and teachers can be paid decent salaries, 3,500,000 children can go back to school and 300,000 families can move out of depressing hovels into sanitary, sun-lit homes." His remedy for crime: education. "While we are striving to deal with one gangster, a thousand criminals are in the making. We pluck leaves from the tree of crime when we should put an axe to the root...
...Roosevelt embracing one another in the [March 26] issue was, in our estimation, outrageous. TIME has every right to give its readers real news and real pictures, but some discretion should be shown when our popular Chief Executive and his wife are being photographed. The wife of a gangster is usually seen kissing her husband through bars, and various movie actors and actresses are snapped during moments of osculation. The President and First Lady are in too high a position-a world famous position-to be thus shown in any magazine...
...mortal head wound crumpled Larry Cappo, sleek little gangster, onetime prizefighter, night-club headwaiter, in the back of a wrecked sedan...
...CRIMSON is indeed startling. I refer, of course, to the notice concerning "brother Kelton" in the Playgoer's column on page four. Considering how feminine a young lady Pert Kelton was only a picture or two ago, I find it quite remarkable that "he" can now fit a gangster part perfectly, crack a crib with "his" underlings...
...escaped convict, Porter, boards a Los Angeles bound bus, a Greyhound bus, (note the advertising element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped by troopers...