Word: espositos
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...street, in this case U. S. entry into the World Court. Mrs. McCormick, like her isolationist husband before her, is against it. Senator Deneen is for it. As in most Illinois campaigns, there was mudslinging. Mrs. McCormick found her mud in Senator Deneen's friendship for Joseph ("Diamond") Esposito, Chicago underworldling...
White-haired, conventional Senator Deneen, ardent Y. M. C. A. worker that he is, was appealing to the ''better element" of the state, making "law-and-order"' his prime slogan. Esposito, his friend, once ran the Bella Napoli, was reputed in his day to be as monstrous a gangster as Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone. Senator Deneen stood as godfather for an Esposito child, partook of the Esposito baptismal feast, had himself photographed with the family. In March 1928, Esposito was shot down with 58 lead slugs in his head, according to Senator Deneen's count...
Taunted by Mrs. McCormick to explain his friendship with such a character, Senator Deneen lately made a speech in a remote corner of the state in which he almost wept over Esposito's slaying, eulogized him as a fine and valiant citizen who had died in the "cause." To help prove what a splendid character he was, Senator Deneen cited the fact that 19,000 roses, costing $10,000, had been strewn along the ten-mile funeral route. Mrs. McCormick's secret stenographer took down that speech. Few are the Illinois voters who do not now know about...
...Last Spring Senator Deneen attended the funeral of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, famed thug and Deneen supporter (TIME, April...
Gang Angle. Bootleg gangsters hold Senator Deneen responsible for a recent attempt at Prohibition enforcement, in which raids were staged on eleven cabarets that considered themselves immune from such treatment. That may have inspired the bombing as well as the assassination of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, gangster, Deneen henchman of the 25th ward, flashy hero of Chicago's Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond...