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Fine for Fleischmann. When last year the late Gangster Dominic Tarro was arrested for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law in Springfield, Ill., Corn Products Refining Co. and Fleischmann Co. were indicted for having conspired to furnish him with materials for liquor-making. Gangster Tarro soon died by violence. Corn products did not contest the case, was fined $5,000 recently (TIME, July 20). Last week Fleischmann Co., an integral part of Standard Brands. Inc., was fined $3,000 after pleading nolo contendere...
...long campaign which the Federal Government has been conducting to put Chicago's Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone in jail for a good long time, moved toward its decisive phase last week, and in two preliminary skirmishes Gangster Capone was victorious. In July Capone appeared before U. S. District Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to be sentenced for failure to pay tax on a $1,038,654 income and for conspiracy (with 5,000 offenses) to violate the Prohibition law, to which he had pleaded guilty. But to Judge Wilkerson had come word that between Capone's Attorney Michael Ahern...
...city's best appeal lawyers. He has attracted outside attention through his treatises on the 18th Amendment in which he emphasizes State sovereignty and the point: "A man's home is his castle." Of late, with his partner Thomas D. Nash, he has defended many a gangster...
...said he would do all he could to help capture and convict the seven men who had held up his car with shotguns, tied him up and held him for six days. During those six days friends of Mr. Lynch had appealed to no less a person than Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone to effect his release. Mr. Capone, deprecating kidnapping, promised to do all he could to persuade the kidnappers to accept $50,000 instead of the $250,000 they demanded, took trusteeship of the $50,000. Unappreciative Chief Investigator Patrick Roche immediately ordered Mr. Capone arrested. A squad...
...gangster, Thomas Arkle Clark held until last week a job he invented and made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished...