Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...When crime looms in London there is but one thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders...
Aged 64, Chief Constable Wensley has been on the Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no gun (London "bobbies," the world's best, are forbidden firearms). From the very first he saw excitement. In 1888 the Whitechapel District of London was being terrorized by the murders of "Jack the Ripper." Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found...
After two years. Policeman Wensley was made a detective. Courteous to the worst of crooks, he received their respect in return. He was never known to arrest a criminal while he was at a meal. Famed Wensley crime-solutions were...
...together toughly through many intricacies of men and motives. To answer people's questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June 17). As a creative writer, he is interested in all things vital, however irrelevant they may seem to the scheme of things orderly...