AMERICAN GANGSTERS
HOARDING OF WEALTH AVOIDING INCOME TAX Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright, VANCOUVER, February 25. A leading financier in New York suggested that one real cause of the depression is hoarding by bootleggers and racketeers. Several hundred thousand of these men, many of whom have considerable wealth, fear to deposit or invest illegal funds, their one object in life being to avoid the payment of income tax. 0
VIOLENT DEATHS. It is estimated that 25,000 gangsters have been killed by gunfire since Prohibition was first enforced..
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Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 9
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85AMERICAN GANGSTERS Evening Star, Issue 21037, 26 February 1932, Page 9
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