Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such a management assumes that the only durable influences in Chicago political action are the influences of the racketeers, bombers, machine gunners, kidnappers, beer needlers, panders, joint keepers, gamblers, pay roll mendicants and petty thieves, fee robbers, habitual criminals, immunized murderers, and such gang chiefs as are able to keep away from each other's gun fire and enjoy the protection of official patronage on strictly business terms...
...This the political hoodlum, highbinder, and hijacking combination which had things in hand until the votes were counted April 10 after a campaign of political assassination, house bombing, ballot box stuffing, intimidation, assault and every kind of gang terrorism...
...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...
Married. Draper M. Daugherty, 41, son of onetime U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty ("Ohio Gang"); to Estelle Sturges, secretly, at Tucson, Ariz., after both had obtained Mexican divorces. Questioned by the police in 1923 concerning the mysterious murder of his friend Dorothy Keenan, Mr. Daugherty was shortly thereafter committed as an inebriate to Stamford Hall Sanitarium, on the petition of his wife, and in 1925 was sent to the Ohio State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. In 1926, he was released...
...Racket. Thomas Meighan is the police captain. Louis Wolheim, of What Price Glory, is the bootlegging gang leader. Marie Prevost is the cabaret girl. "Skeets" Gallagher is a reporter. The result is the fastest moving, most convincing of the recent parade of rum-revolver-racket films...