Word: gangsterisms
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...know, sir, that you are creating a dangerous demand for something that can not always be supplied? Who is going to keep it up if you should suddenly fall a victim to a Chicago gangster...
...beginning of last week there were three live leaders of Chicago gangland -Big Shots, in gangster parlance. They were Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, whose dominion reaches out from the South Side of the city, and his two long standing enemies, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran, both of the North Side. For weeks all three had kept public and police (who sought them on vagrancy charges) guessing as to their whereabouts. Suddenly two of them appeared, very much in the public...
...Press to know he never had blamed Capone for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. When he was freed under a total of $15,000 bail a few hours before the Aiello slaying, he skulked off, disappeared. He was no Big Shot last week, just a gangless gangster...
...three bullets fired into Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond while his chorus girl splashed in their Manhattan bathtub (TIME, Oct. 20) received far more space in British dailies and weekly reviews than all four of President Herbert Hoover's recent speeches combined. "After all," cried the Manchester Guardian, No. 1 Liberal daily, "the most important thing of all is to be civilized. . . . The fate of a Jack Diamond is without significance in itself but the social attitude toward him is significant of much. . . . Here is a perfect illustration of the fallacy that a nation or city is civilized because...
...Germany, whence Gangster Diamond was recently expelled, local events were so much more exciting last week (see below) that he was only second string news...