Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mayor Thompson shouted and Chief Hughes compiled figures, leading citizens investigated for themselves. Besides the black eye which dramas like Chicago and The Racket were giving their city, citizens had become genuinely alarmed by hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot...
...favor of some sort of tariff reduction, and then to hitch tariff riders to the tax bill. The riders were to lower the tariff on aluminum and steel, to raise it on farm products such as corn and perhaps mollasses (corn's competitor as a source of industrial alcohol...
...none other than Richard Dix, wearing a warm coat of California tan. An inevitably charming and good-natured outlaw, he cracks his long whip, shoots, stabs as if he were playing the role of a contemporary gangster instead of Joaquin Murrietta whose career was a trail of blood, bullets, alcohol and love for a pure sweet girl through the days of '49. There is no need to fear that Jake Hamby and his gang will be spry enough to catch and hang so gallant a jack, although they make violent efforts...
Arrests 64,986 Autos seized 7,137 Boats seized 353 Individuals prosecuted 51,945 Convictions 36,545 Fines $5,775,225 Dr. Doran said the U. S. had tried to eliminate poison from alcohols. Production of alcohol in 1927 was 184,323,016 gals., a decrease since 1926 of 17,948,653 gals. The Prohibition Bureau's 1928 policy will be to supervise U. S. alcohol production, restricting it to the known demand of legitimate industry...
...clippings told of brutal, better days when Griffo fought four champions, George Dixon, Kid Lavigne, Jack McAuliffe, Joe Gans. Griffo never met a better fighter except alcohol. On the day of his fight with Dixon for the featherweight championship (Griffo weighed 120) he disappeared; was snatched out of a saloon late in the afternoon; boiled out in a Turkish bath; held Dixon to a desperate draw...