HOOVER TAKES ACTION
SUPPRESSING GANGSTERS
ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY SOUGHT
NEW YORK, 22nd November. The "New York World's" Washington correspondent states that President Hoover will ask Congress for additional authority, to deal with the gangster situation throughout thß United States. Besides prosecution for failure to pay income taxes, a nation-wide campaign against so-called racketeers who blackmail legitimate businesses to the extent of many millions of dollars has been launched. Congressmen who recently returned from their districts found constituents alarmed'over the boldness of gangsters, and want the Federal Government to go* as! far as it can in a war against them.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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98HOOVER TAKES ACTION Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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