Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bigot read the Declaration of Independence. Let him review the Harding and Coolidge administrations for evidence of "buying presidencies." Let him also ask Elihu Root and Chas. Evans Hughes, Republican leaders, for their opinions on the fitness of Al Smith as a governmental executive, and their opinions on his loyalty to the United States...
Reading the item in TIME, July 23 under caption, Smith vs. White, Mr. White rejoins: "The undertakers are looking wistfully right now at three members of the United States Supreme Court, and with Al Smith as President we should have in that Court three distinguished learned respectable lawyers (who would) declare the 18th Amendment unconstitutional...
...Hoff can sympathize with Chicago's famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally...
...targets were Tony Lombardo, president of the Italian-American Club, good friend of Alphonse' ("Scarface Al") Capone; and one of Mr. Lombardo's bodyguards, Joseph Ferrara. Mr. Lombardo lay down on the sidewalk and writhed until he died. Mr. Ferrara, wounded in the back, writhed until the ambulance came. He died in a hospital without telling who the murderers might...
...that this prominent member of the nouveau riche is the wife of a man, who after growing rich under Republican regimes and policies, deserted his party SOLELY FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS. His talk about prohibition is THE BUNK. He obeyed his master the pope, in the same way that "Everything" Al would obey that master...