Word: aldermanic
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Undaunted, he went on to Brighton. "In Brighton," proudly declared a civic alderman, "any man can sing anything - well almost anything - in any language he knows...
...Alderman Dorsey Crowe, by a $500 cash check among Zuta's cancelled vouchers, endorsed with a rubber-stamp "Crowe & Kolb," dissolved firm in which he had been partner. Alderman Crowe last week denied acquaintance with Gangster Zuta...
...pessimist and expect a perfectly natural improvement in business before the end of the year, but I feel like the alderman, who, confusing gondolas with rabbits, thought two gondolas were sufficient for the pond in the park...
More far reaching than those two cases was evidence that Tipster Lingle had received $85,000 in payments or loans from racketeers and public officials, the latter including Chicago's Corporation Counsel Samuel A. Ettelson, Alderman Berthold A. Cronson, City Civil Service Commissioner Major Carlos Ames...
...with hundreds of idlers, toughs, men out of work. A few with police records were detained, but most were released. The Tribune roared that a certain gunman would soon be apprehended. Into the Detective Bureau marched Sam Hunt, one of the Capone ''mob," with a onetime city alderman, his lawyer. Smiling, he showed news reporters he was not left-handed (the glove clue), established an alibi, marched out. Chief Detective Stege announced the qualifications of his six search-squad leaders in terms of their crook-shooting records: "Lieut. Frank Reynolds, who has killed 11; Lieut. Al Booth...