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...Swanson announced: "I have officially been given to understand that definite evidence will be made available for the grand jury in [the Lingle] murder." Before the week was out, police sleuths identified the pistol that killed Lingle as having been sold a few months ago to one Frank Foster, dapper member of the Capone "mob." Foster was missing from Chicago. A nationwide search began to find him, to ask him who may have used...
...Dapper Mayor James John Walker, much exercised over the deaths in his city, cried: "First degree murder and the electric chair are too good for ['smoke' sellers]. If I had a club I would hit on the head myself any man who sold poison liquor, and I would not wait for a policeman. I said poisonous liquor. ... It is a violation of the Constitution to sell [any] liquor, but we might stagger through that...
However, such individualism as Mr. Whalen's in a Tammany (which means team-play, or machine-play) administration was unusual in New York. Even amid the cheers, newsgatherers scented friction, suggested the dapper mayor was jealous of his Commissioner's sartorial perfection, of his triumphant publicity, his possible eligibility for the mayoralty itself...
Ticklish was the task faced by genial, dapper James ("Jim") Speyer, who was born in the home city of the house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...
...Manhattan, a dapper, well-dressed little man with a big suitcase rushed into Grand Central Station shouting: ''I'm going away from New York. It's too much...