Theodore Roosevelt or his like in the White House might well have been impelled long since, by sheer curiosity, to have a look at such a national phenomenon as Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone has been allowed to become. It would have been distinctly Rooseveltian to command Capone's presence in Washington on any old pretext and settle his hash out of hand, man to man.
Such could never be the method of President Hoover. Yet last spring he did name Capone by name and though averse to "drives" of any sort by the...
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