Life and property (in the U. S.) are relatively more unsafe than in any other civilized country in the worldPresident Hoover to the Associated Press meeting last fortnight.
The North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart docked last week at a Manhattan pier. Purser Emil Remer had a $6,400,600 gold bullion shipment to deliver. Gauntleted, cartridge-belted policemen swarmed up the gangplank. Others, armed with sawed-off shotguns and submachine guns, stood about in anxious readiness on the pier. The heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed. The bristling caravan, like a party of Forty-niners...
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