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Year ago when Franklin Roosevelt went before Congress to describe the State of the Union he delivered a message that was far less a communication than a challenge. It denounced "entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers," "discredited special interests," "political puppets of an economic autocracy." those who '" 'gang up' against the people's liberties." It was called the first gun of the campaign...
...decency of Great Guy is guaranteed by the fact that its hero, Johnny Cave, is an honest public official fighting a gang of political crooks. Johnny's position on the side of law & order does not prevent him from using guttersnipe technique...
...paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well in hand that last week State Superintendent of Insurance Louis Pink recommended a 7% reduction in liability rates. Simultaneously in Chicago was uncovered the most vicious...
Last month a steel elevated train rammed a wooden one on Chicago's North Side, killing11, injuring 67. Some of the victims complained of ambulance chasers. Last week, after a secret investigation, police arrested eight ringleaders, estimated that their gang comprised 1,500 lawyers, doctors, undertakers, hospital attaches, police station loungers, runners, streetcar motormen, professional witnesses...
...good faith by paying the patient's bill in advance. He soon got Doe to sign a contract hiring his employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against the taxi company. Then Doe was transferred to a hospital where the gang had a doctor. X-rays were taken of his leg, retouched to indicate it was broken. The plates won a fat fee from the taxi company, but Doe never saw his share. Kept in the hospital for weeks recovering from injuries he did not have, he ended up with...