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[Al Capone's] highest achievement is that of
carrying Hollywood and Broadway on his shoulders. Most of the writers, dramatists, actors, scenarists and professors of sociology are living off he Big Boy to-day. If anything went wrong with the Capone department of belles-lettres, the publishing business would totter. The big racketeer has solved the problems of the motion picture industry [as well]. Capone came along to change the subject and give sex a well-earned holiday. The movie massacres were like a breath of pure air after all the impropriety and misconduct of the films.β
Alva Johnston, βCapone, King of Crime,β May 1931
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