Word: ciceroism
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...terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
...this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends in Cicero, lawless Chicago suburb; no one was going to beat him, to bomb his place of business. The association did, however, try peaceful measures, inaugurated a price-cutting war which is still going...
...Philosophical Works of Cicero", Processor C. H. Moore, Sever...
...Strictly speaking, the Capone residence is just outside Chicago, in ill-famed Cicero, Ill. But the Capone operations are inside the city limits. Chicago's police and Mr. Capone understand each other when a civic "cleanup" is afoot...
Faced by this project for speedy disarmament, could League slow-pokers retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...