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...many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns???the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem of why the U.S. has so many kooks, and the lack of any final answer, may come down to a dilemma inherent in freedom. The Bill of Rights and the U.S. promise of "liberty for all," habeas corpus...
Meantime, word came that Johnny ("The Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns???would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions to the Chicago gangland throne will probably not go unchallenged. Hardly had the Capone pleas been entered last week before two gunmen were shot down in a reawakened feud between the South Side gangs of Frank McErlane and Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell. Attorney Johnson said that the Government also...
...Islands was too small. With 7,000 more men, the defense would have been able to maintain mobile reserves close enough to the north coast to repulse the attack there. "Dependence," said he, "must not be placed primarily or even predominantly upon mechanical means?field guns or machine guns???but upon mobile troops and aircraft, counter-attacking whenever and wherever necessary...
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