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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tough preparatory schools and colleges, big boys sell the radiators, fire-escapes, bedroom crockery, etc., to smaller boys. In Chicago, big boys sell small boys the privilege of staying in business. Chicago's "rackets," as they are called, developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last...
Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...
...Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami at no man's behest short of the U. S. Supreme Court. Then he went out, bought $2,000 worth of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., to furnish his mansion, went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood of their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone and send him away, surveyed a high wall which has been built around the Capone house; reflected upon the quickness...
Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman's House, etc.), self-styled "last of the traditional Irish story tellers"; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork...
...past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness, but no relaxation of reflexes. The patient can therefore be roused to take nourishment, attend to physical needs, etc., dropping off to sleep again as soon as he is left alone. It has been used to bring on "twilight sleep" in obstetrics...