Word: brothels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...eyes were cocked over all the craft and spoliation in Pennsylvania. Quay had been content to run the machine. Curiously, Penrose's chief ambition was to be mayor of Philadelphia, an aim which he might have achieved if he had not been photographed one dawn leaving a Philadelphia brothel. Pennsylvania's voters, however, sent him to the Senate for 24 years...
Announcement No. 3 was the most detailed. Reported the Communist New China Daily News: when the Japs left Kalgan they also left 562 "sellers of smiles and flesh," doing business in dozens of brothels. "Brothel keepers flogged them when business was not good and often violated them...
Communists came to the rescue with an unconditional ceasefire. By official decree brothel keepers were forbidden to hold girls in bondage. "But liberation was not achieved without months of patient work in enlightening the prostitutes' warped minds. Now they dress in plain, homely clothes instead of the erstwhile seductive dresses. . . . Most have been sent back to their families or married off to small businessmen, carpenters, tailors...
...Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines who can't get telephones either-is Joe Battaglia '25, lisping an occasional word but more often playing a very neat brothel-piano background...