Word: ciceroism
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TIME "picks on" no man, county or state; has lately reported outrages at Herrin, Ill., Cicero, Ill., Chicago; also in Indiana, Ohio, Washington, Texas, Russia, China, Rumania, Java...
...most literary translation into Latin of the conversation between Marcus Tullius Cicero and Quinctus Cicero in William Savage Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" there is a $50 award. The selection to be translated includes everything from the opening of the conversation to the Words "remembering longer among...
Granted the possible weakness of American law forces; granted the success of those of England; not granted, however, that the American criminal--especially of the bandit gunman genre--is the average criminal. Perhaps even the Liverpool police would be some what disconcerted, if stationed, for instance, in Cicero, III. In Cicero men are not only men: they are gunmen. And similarly in other communities--in bloody Herrin, in Canton, and of course in the metropolitan centers. It would and it will when the time comes--take a better system than the present one to wipe out the invisible ring...
...Cicero becomes too tame a play ground, there are other places...
...decided several months ago that the performances and sideshows of King Caponi's regime were interfering with both the efficiency and nerves of their workers. Two vice presidents of a corporation were despatched to Washington to appeal to the Federal Government. Secret Service agents returned to wander around Cicero's grimy nooks. Suddenly, last week, a Federal grand jury indicted "Scarface Al" Caponi and his brother Ralph; Joseph Z. Klenha, president of the town of Cicero; Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police, and 75 others, for con-spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Federal agents say they have...