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...cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under . . . this little gang of bloodstained, money-making murderers [the Nazis]. . . . Hitler says the whole German people is behind him. I for one am prepared to take him at his word...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...
...Gang murders like those over which the Brooklyn District Attorney has been putting on such a show (TIME, April 1) are the gruesome small change of the underworld business. Thompson & Raymond are concerned to demonstrate that underworld business would never have nourished in New York City in the '20s and '30s unless it had been an upper-world business as well-a business that became big-time with Prohibition, that became pervasive with the industrial rackets, that reached almost tyrannical power when a queer, greedy slob and gunman named Arthur Flegenheimer gave orders...
...richer that mobs got from bootlegging and allied rackets, the more help they could deliver in elections, the more beholden the bosses became. Thompson & Raymond draw a pretty picture of the principal gangs and gang leaders during that era, of their boyish purchases in haberdashery and chorus girls, their nights into the nightclub business and into sports ("Big Bill" Dwyer introduced professional hockey to Manhattan), their celebrated lawyers such as "The Great Mouthpiece" Fallon. They name certain such semi-criminal fixers who are still in the law business...
...Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket and in his heyday treated Tammany Boss James J. Hines as his stooge. If Gang Rule In New York contained nothing else, it would be note worthy for preserving the full stenographic record of Schultz's deathbed ravings in Newark City Hospital on Oct. 24, 1935, after a hole had been blown in his side by a .45-calibre automatic. Excerpts...