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Solution. In Oklahoma City, authorities puzzled over the problem of Mrs. Bill Tucker, who shot her husband in the abdomen when she caught him flirting with the telephone girl in a bootleg liquor store, finally solved it by releasing the three principals, jailing the bootlegger...
...Bootleg. In Bucklin, Kans., Farmer R. D. McColm investigated a decline in his cow's milk production, discovered that a pig had been beating him to the draw...
Undesirable Stimuli. "First of all, Catholics would ask Freudians to throw out their bootleg philosophy and theology and provide themselves with some properly aged nutriment. . . . Freudians need to recognize frankly that to prescribe for the education or re-education of anyone, a philosophy, a Weltanschauung, is necessary. . . . They would find that [Catholicism] . . . has much to recommend it. They would find a Weltanschauung elaborated by many generations of contributors who have produced a very thorough analysis of the end of man; namely, the purpose and goal of human life...
...Brooklyn, rough-tough Johnny Torrio, ex-Chicago bootleg king and Al Capone's sometime mentor, who quit the rackets after he was shot up in 1925, heaved a big sigh of relief. At his solicitation, the FBI had finally rounded up two men accused of sending him a threatening letter last September...
...went to work for Johnny Torrio, a First Ward vice and bootleg racketeer, running a saloon and brothel (at $75 a week) on South Wabash Avenue. He did his work well. Soon he became Torrio's field general and drill sergeant, and was cut in on a $100,000-a-year profit. Chicago began to hear the newcomer's name. It was Al Capone...