Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Dry enforcement transfer was at first more theoretical than physical, with little or no shuffling about between offices. So crowded already was the main Department of Justice building that the new Prohibition bureau was retained in its old headquarters in the Southern Railway building on Pennsylvania Avenue. About 2...
The crew that comes out of its starting spirit first is usually master of a race. Harvard was a nose in front at the start last week on the Thames in New London, but little Gillespie, the Yale coxswain, was shouting less often into the face of Woodruff Tappen, the...
One day last week a stocky, swarthy, middle-aged man ate luncheon, as was his wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading...
With the City Council and Association of Commerce stirring at the outcry of the Press, the Chicago police were filled with confusion and dismay. A general round-up of "Who's Hoodlum" (list lately compiled and .published by a citizens' committee) was ordered and the police stations were...
Died. Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, 38, Chicago Tribune special reporter on gangland affairs; by the hand of an unidentified gangster who shot him three times while he was walking through the crowded entry tunnel of a Chicago railroad station.* Twenty years on the Tribune, Newsman Lingle last year "covered" Alphonse ("Scarface...