Word: criming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, Chicagoans thought last week they could see rays of hope piercing the city's crime pall. A cigar store clerk outfoxed a thug, shot him dead. Another citizen, halted on Madison Street by the command "Hands up," was amazed to see his assailant fumbling through his own pockets, looking puzzled...
...Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special Prosecutor Frank J. Loesch, the fearless, aging Presbyterian whom Chicago's civilian Crime Commission engaged some months ago to do what State's Attorney Crowe and Mayor Thompson were leaving undone. Judge Swanson planned to take over the Loesch assistants...
...Deneen, perhaps the only U. S. Senator who ever attended a gangster's funeral. But Judge Swanson will be able to bear his political obligations lightly if he makes good his end of his alliance with the Chicago Association of Commerce, which backed Special Prosecutor Loesch and the Crime Commission...
...which later proved to be only one more vehicle for Thompsonian publicity. With the Mayor increasingly bogged and discredited, the Mayor's committee has awakened to its opportunity, to Chicago's necessity. Last week the Chicago potentates were considering taking .the city's affairs-debts, taxes, crime, public works and all-into their own hands and running Chicago the way Venice used to be run, by an oligarchy of wealthy, peace-loving trade-seeking doges...
Said Toral's lawyer, famed and feline Demetrio Sodi: "I wanted my client to be convicted. Had he been acquitted no power on earth could have prevented a lynching. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. That august tribunal will uphold my contention that the crime was purely political and is therefore punishable by a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment...