Word: ciceroism
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...When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes...
...keep his two sons, Reuben and John (both under 16), at work in a cotton mill. His complaint was upheld in district court; Farmer Dagenhart found his views so appealed to industry generally that a powerful Wall Street law firm undertook his case. His opponent was Federal Attorney William Cicero Hammer, and Mr. Hammer got himself some help, too-from the Solicitor-General of the U. S., a handsome lawyer named John W. Davis. The case went to the Supreme Court...
...arrow-straight line of its flight path was broken. Inside the cabin a woman screamed. There was a horrible crash as the big silver monoplane broke an electric line. Beyond, only a block from the field, she hit the ground, burst asunder. From houses near by, residents of Cicero Avenue rushed to the wreck, carried out six dead, four who were to die before week's end, six who survived...
...Cravath, 78, massive, magisterial corporation lawyer, head of one of the nation's greatest law firms, Cravath, de Gersdorif, Swaine & Wood; of a heart attack; in Locust Valley, L. I. Nearly 55 years ago Paul Cravath, with his yard-wide shoulders, 240 lb., 6 ft. 4 in., was "Cicero'' to his Columbia University Law School classmates, at whose head he stood. In a "dry-goods"' law firm (one partner: Charles Evans Hughes) he pursued insolvent debtors for textile merchants, began acquiring corporations as clients. His first big one was Westinghouse Electric Co. In 1899 Lawyer Cravath...
...Reader Maas is editorializing; TIME did not. All praise to Cicero's 70,000. But it would be unique town indeed that could harbor the Capone mob through a decade and fail to gain notoriety...