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...majorities in the House. For him no Republican can do wrong. Having frequently compared Warren Gamaliel Harding's "moral leadership" to Abraham Lincoln's, his maiden speech in the Senate was a spirited defense of the discredited President's administration. Never a member of the Ohio Gang, he nevertheless branded each investigation of its misdeeds as "an orgy of slander, a spree of muckraking, a riot of vituperation and incrimination...
...February 1932. Thereafter he still stuck to petty thievery, never got more than $3,500 at one haul, but he did begin to find sport in shooting down, without provocation, people who got in his way-filling station men, constables, plain citizens. In two years he, Bonnie Parker & gang were credited with twelve murders, including one when he staged a prison farm delivery near Crockett, Tex. (TIME, Jan. 29). An awe-struck Press magnified him into one of the "worst killers of the Southwest." One morning last week Captain Hamer, who had been following Barrow from hideout to hideout, received...
They towed the car to Arcadia whence two ambulances carried the bodies to Dallas. Among Bonnie Parker's effects was a poem she had written, her own threnody: Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they...
...Chicago's North Side, police found an abandoned Ford sedan, with blood-stained seats and empty cartridges lying on its floor, identified it as a car seized by the Dillinger gang in St. Paul last month. Promptly they scoured the city, north and south...
...days in the hut of Ollie Catfish, a Chippewa, and the Federals got on his trail after he had left. In a swamp nearby, the Federals went gunning for another gangster whom they were "sure" they had surrounded. At a bank hold-up in Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were promptly covered by machine guns and disarmed by men who they were "positive" were members of the gang. "It was Dillinger, all right." said one. But where Desperado Dillinger was or how he would strike next...