Word: hijacking
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Sirs: ... If TIME has no rule against gangster pictures,* I offer as candidate for your front cover the greatest gangster of our times- the only mobster to hijack a great nation, the only racketeer to shake down an entire race of mankind-Adolf Hitler...
...through a fairyland of misadventures Lawyer-Lobbyist William P. MacCracken, one-time Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, helped to have him jailed for ten days for contempt of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.). Now Sleuth Jurney, on behalf of his Senatorial masters, was out to hijack a prize utility lobby witness captured by rival House investigators. Flanked by two deputies, Sergeant Jurney plunked himself in the rear seat of an official Senate limousine. Three newshawks scrambled in with them. Behind, in a dozen other cars and taxicabs, came more newshawks and photographers. The chase...
...Monday about dark," he confessed, "I told him we would go down on Water Street in East Macon and lay for a liquor car. He went along all right, thinking we were going to hijack somebody...