Word: gangland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Number Three. William ("Klondike") O'Donnell goes back to the days when gin cost $5 a fifth. No book on Chicago gangland is complete without the story of the O'Donnell brothers (WestSide) three-cornered fight with the North and South Siders. Klondike's Brother Myles and notorious Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin, both now dead, shot up the Capone citadel in Cicero in 1925. Of the remaining 35 public enemies, only Frank Diamond, no relation to Manhattan's late little criminal clay pigeon "Legs," is important and at the same time somewhat obscure...
...have about 250 or 300 bartenders and 800 to 900 waiters in our organization. The bartenders are earning their living selling soft drinks, but we are preparing to take advantage of the change. . . ." Others asked "the cooperation of all people to keep this industry out of the hands of gangland...
...nation-wide crime wave, lashed into destructive fury by the power of gangland born of a monstrous legal blunder, has created such a demand for severity in law enforcement that there has grown with that demand a laxity in observance by law officers of those rights which it is fatal to ignore, even though that ignoring results in the entrapment of the guilty." Lawyer Lilleston of Kansas was the comic relief. He called himself "the forgotten...
This is a picture that has slipped by many people unseen because its title suggests gangland melodrama. In reality, it is one of the most sensitively conceived and perfectly directed films of the year...
Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone's mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets. Frank Capone, Al's brother, died violently there. Musicomedienne Rosetta Duncan had her nose smashed there. Last week Cicero turned over a new political leaf...