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...went to Chicago as chief gunman for James ("Big Jim") Colosimo. As assistant in Chicago, Johnny Torrio selected a stocky Brooklyn boy named Al Capone. In 1920, Jim Colosimo was shot dead. Torrio succeeded him as Chicago's top racketeer and kept Al Capone as a $75-a-week underling. Johnny Torrio left Chicago shortly after Dion O'Banion's elaborate funeral in 1924, went back to be riddled with bullets by O'Banion's gunmen. He recovered, served a short jail sentence for running a brewery, and went to Italy for a holiday. When...
...union offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also the singers of periodic opera in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, the G.O.A.A.A. made little headway whereas the Guild, soon after its organization, appeared able to do better. On such grounds the Guild demanded G.O.A.A.A.'s charter. Last week came...
...Last week the archer's arrows rebounded. Observers could envisage what scorn Charley would have called up if, in 1931, he had caught a Republican in his own shoes, for Charley had just announced that, while retaining his inside Democratic post, he was accepting a $200-a-week contract as publicity "adviser" to the Crosley Radio Corporation. The contract stipulates that he shall not appear before any Government Commission...
...family name when they reached New York from Rumania in 1897. After his graduation from Cornell Law School in 1915, young Sam was advised by a successful Jewish lawyer to change his name to Lee. "I told him to go to hell." Two years of $35-a-week civil practice turned Lawyer Liebowitz to defending criminals. A debater and dramatic star at Cornell, he quickly found his genius to be mastering juries. A natural showman, daring, quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions...
Died. Harry E. Sheldon, 75, president of Allegheny Steel Co., which he and his father-in-law founded with $300,000 in 1900; after brief illness; in Pittsburgh. Orphaned at two, he quit school at nine, five years later became a $2-a-week machine shop apprentice...