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...black, egg-shaped object known elsewhere as a hand-grenade. Since the first of the year they have been utilized 21 times by racketeers angry for one reason or another with fellow racketeers, politicians, bootleggers, gamblers. Last week "pineapples" exploded on the doorsteps of U. S. Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson. The results were mild for Chicago; no one was killed; only the fronts of two houses were blown to splinters...
...above deeds and why remained a mystery-the usual Chicago bombing mystery. Posters were tacked on fences and poles throughout the city, advertising $65,000 in rewards for information concerning the Deneen and Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and others were sponsors of the rewards. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Michael Hughes reported: "It is almost impossible to trace bombers. There are 50 places in the city where dynamite can be purchased just as a person buys a package of cigarets...
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, haggard but sharp, defended Mr. Vare as best he could politically, as he had to. He got little help from thicklensed Senator Deneen, the stuffy and ineffectual Smith colleague...
...before held public office higher than a seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee of Brown University...
Three years ago Mrs. McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...