Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, branded on one swart cheek by the razor memento of the Neapolitan Camorra, was Al Capone...
...Chicago, Colosimo's murder moved Capone up. Now he was cheek by jowl with Diamond Jim's lieutenant, Johnny Torrio. The two worked well together. In four years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power was Dion O'Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets...
...Weiss. Weiss was shot down several months later in front of the Holy Name Cathedral on Superior Street. Others died in doorways, in telephone booths, in alleys, in bed, at the wheels of their expensive cars. In the decade there were 4,242 homicides on the blotter of the Chicago police alone, most of them unsolved. But nobody shot Capone...
...Capone was arrested in 1929 in Philadelphia and went to prison for a year on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. After his release a Chicago newspaper man, Jake Lingle, was shot. He was suspected of being "in the racket," said to have been Capone's friend. Whatever he was, his murder was one too many. There was a sudden bellow of public indignation. In Chicago Colonel Robert Isham Randolph and his Secret Six Committee, Investigator Pat Roche, many another, took up the crusade for decency. Capone was near...
...Germany, both official and otherwise, was frankly puzzled. Police were unwontedly vague. No concerted, planned roundup of any suspected group ensued. Arrests in Munich were numerous but unsystematic: the police, evidently not knowing whom to arrest, clapped this & that one into jail-among them two American reporters, Chicago Tribune's Ernest Pope and John Raleigh...