Transcription: Big time crime flourished in the 20s. Gangsters like Al Capone captured the public fancy while gangsters in Washington raided the public till. The Attorney General of the United States, of all people, somehow managed to bank $75,000 on a salary of $12,000. Not that the country much cared. They were too busy making money and spending it. People were getting rich. Everyone was buying Roadsters and washing machines. machines and Turkish rugs. The country was having the time of its life. Novelist Scott Fitzgerald called the twenties the greatest, gaudiest spree in history. Was it ever?
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