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In 1934 President Roosevelt was forced to include in his State of the Union message some comment respecting law and order. In the year since he had taken office, the nation's attention, when it was not focused upon the torrent of social and economic legislation flowing out of Washington, had become transfixed by news accounts of a violent crime wave rocking the Midwest. Local enforcement agencies, many riddled with corruption, had proven unable to cope with this outbreak of lawlessness, and, increasingly, as they had for relief and jobs, people turned to the federal government for a solution. Crimes of organized banditry and kidnapping were threatening the nation's security, the president said, and that made it a national concern. But translating concern into a plan of action was entirely another matter. The man whom the president had made his attorney general, Homer S...
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