Word: gangdom
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...most damnably outrageous thing I've read in a long time," said Governor Roosevelt. "I can express righteous indignation, but that won't help catch them." The American Legion offered to mobilize 30,000 vigilantes against gangdom. Mayor Walker announced a fresh drive against the city's criminals, felt confident that Police Commissioner Mulrooney would apprehend the murderers. "If anything can arouse Americans . . ." scoffed an editorial in the London Daily Express. "How much more evidence," Congressman Andrew Lawrence Somers wired President Hoover, "is necessary to convince us of the merits of this [Prohibition...
Prosecutor of the 68 culprits is Victor E. La Rue, First Assistant U. S. Attorney. He is used to wholesale liquor cases. At Rockford, 111., he recently tried a batch of 43 'leggers, convicted 36. But the driving force behind the Federal battering ram against Chicago gangdom was softspoken, bush-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, born and bred on an Iowa farm 56 years ago. When he was graduated from Lake Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced...
...When Edgar Wallace's Chicago gangdom play, On the Spot, was presented in that city-last week, to please civic-minded Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak the locale was changed to New York City, a Tribune Tower backdrop was painted out. Grant's Tomb painted...
Assuming the national chairmanship of the Anti Gang Rule League, new and obscure crime prevention organization, Cartoonist Percy Lee Crosby (Skippy), took a sling shot at gangdom's Goliath. Said Chairman Crosby, famed for his personal newspaper advertisements against Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 16): "If invited, I will go to Chicago to meet Al Capone in his own territory, without gun permit or bodyguard...
...reptile. He deserves to die. He has no right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops") Volpe was seized on a deportation warrant in Chicago. Courts stuck to their method of jailing...