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What Chief Roche did not explain, what set ugly rumors flying was the question: Who hired Brothers to shoot Lingle? Conjectures were plentiful because the Tribune reporter was too deeply enmeshed in underworld affairs not to have made many a gangster enemy...
...whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...
Last week before the bar of justice in Chicago stood Jack Guzik, notorious gangster, payoff man for Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. The charge was "vagrancy," a legal excuse conceived by Judge John H. Lyle who issued warrants for 26 "vagrant" Chicago thugs and thereby received national publicity (TIME, Oct. 13). The State set out to show that "Vagrant" Guzik had no visible livelihood...
...have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have never done anything that is condemned by society as morally wrong. I didn't pay income taxes because the laws were not clear. But if society demands a penalty from me I am glad to pay it." Had Gangster Nitti been detected bringing merchandise dutiable at $158,000 through the Customs, he would have been assessed $158,000 duty, plus $158,000 fine, plus sundry costs. As it is, he only pays the U. S. his back taxes plus a $10,000 fine (about 2% per annum...
...member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced an entirely new, voluminous tariff bill...