Word: als
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the wistful departure of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, famed ganglander, for a winter vacation (TIME, Dec. 16),* Chicago announced itself to be convalescent from the civic disease that had made it the most notably criminal city in the U. S. Even Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson stopped shouting about Chicago's virtues to announce that its vices were on the wane. Chief of Police Michael Hughes gave out figures to the effect that Chicago was 66% less criminal in 1927 than formerly...
...audience, mostly women, by producing on the Masonic Temple platform a black robed, hooded, masked figure who croaked sepulchrally: "I have consorted with the dregs of humanity. I have waded through cesspools of vice in order to carry out my investigations. I have played poker with the brother of Al Capone! I have a sixth sense...
Eddie Buzzell, as a newspaper correspondent who is captured by "a thousand, no, more than that--ten hundred Riffs," furnishes the amusement. His prayer to Allah, beginning "you know me, Al," is a gem. This comic interpolation, combined with Sigmund Romber's music, suffices to make "The Desert Song" entertainment of the first rank...
...there was a "moment" in the extravagantly long evening, it came when George R. Lunn, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, lifted his voice above a typewritten document which few but himself had read?a letter from "Al" Smith. Governor Smith was absent if for no better reason than that Mrs. Smith's appendix was just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention...
Chief Leslie H. Quigg of the Miami, Fla., police force, had a famed caller, a burly person whose face is a grim combination of smiles and scars. It was Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, ganglander, ousted from his Chicago home, rejected by Los Angeles, still seeking residence (TIME, Dec. 19). "Do I stay or do I get out?" asked Capone. Chief Quigg announced: "If he's just here to have a good time and doesn't start any rough stuff, I won't bother him." Rumor said that Capone would buy a Miami night club. Capone said...