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Police methods can cope with stray children, but the sources of stray bullets seem still beyond control. The New York police are efficient, as far as any police group can be. Despite such elements of graft that cannot fail to be present, there must be some men who do their jobs honestly and thoroughly. To those men is due the doubtful credit of this record...
...said the court. "It only goes to show the hopelessness of the effort to cope with this business...
More than Capone's liberty is at stake in this trial. It will indicate whether the national government can cope with organized crime, now that the states have failed. The federal system has not the scope for prosecution of criminal cases that the state has, but opportunities for the influx of criminal influences are proportionately small. A victory of the racketeer over the federal courts may turn this country into a timocracy ruled by hoodlums. A conviction against Capone will strike an effective blow at our hierarchy of crime...
...most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last met with a situation with which he is utterly unable to cope. He has run headlong into a trap masked with the deceptive laurels of a Degree with Honors, which has turned out but another camouflage for those grim gentlemen, The Ancient Authors...
...suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops. . . .His cope, mitre and pastoral staff aptitudes have caused dismay to some, and led others to ridicule what should be a dignified office. He looks well in a high hat, but odd in a mitre...