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...Brooklyn earlier the same day a hoodlum named Louis ("Pretty") Amberg, whose equally notorious brother Joseph had been murdered in a garage three weeks before, was hacked to death with a hatchet, left in a blazing sedan. Feeling as if the whole bloody business was some anachronistic throwback to the Prohibition Era, metropolitan police set about trying to make sense of the criminal carnage...
...York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine had a theory all his own. To him the murder of Amberg and the assault on the Flegenheimer gang were plainly the outcroppings of a race war in the underworld-Italians v. Jews. Accordingly, he sent his men out to find Charles Luciana, called "Lucky" because he is one of the few men to survive a "ride." "Lucky" Luciana is a squint-eyed Latin who is supposed to run the Unione Siciliana, a society which has progressively usurped the privilege of catering to New York's night life. In their...
...before yesterday, it was Louis Amberg, an innocent martyr, if there ever was one, not only in death but throughout his whole adult life. Fifteen times an unjust society had called him into court for homicide, assault with intent to kill, and other such vile offenses. And fifteen times the poor fellow, with his reputation nevertheless ruined, was able easily to prove that he was as innocent as a new born lamb...
Richard Hiller Amberg, Robert Hicks Bates, Henry Hamilton Bissell, Richard Adolph Bloomfield, Benjamin Cushing Bowker, Morton Clark Bradley, Jr., Leon Brooks, Winston Mansfield Burdett, Warren Leonard Claff, Samuel Louis Cohen, Louis Cooperstein, Samuel Duker, Maurice Francis English, John Lincoln Finan, Franklin Gay Folger, Oliver Garceau, Charles Clarke Glavin, Edwin Paul Gordon, Henry Greenberg, John Dickson Hersey, Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, Elliott Samuel Hurwaitt, James Francis Kane, Jr., Alfred Kidder, 2d, Harlan Michael Levin, James Marcellus Lichliter, Edmund Lieberman, Robert Baddow Lisle, John Hamilton McCallum, William Alexander McGivney...
...debaters have a record of three victories, including one over Yale earlier in the season, three defeats, and three no-decision debates. The members of the team debating here against the Eli are headed by D. M. Sullivan '33, president of the Debating Society, and include R. H. Amberg '33, and A. E. Phillips '34, with M. J. Litwack '34, and O. H. Lurie '34, as alternates...