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George ("Buggs") Moran, Chicago gangster, and his crony Leo Mongoven, were arrested for loafing about the Hotel Sherman lobby, both soaked with perfume costing $2 an ounce...
Author Burnett's first book, Little Caesar, was about a Chicago gangster; his second is the tale of a prizefighter. He writes, not for men only, but primarily for men. Women play a small part in his stories and he writes always from and to a strictly masculine point of view...
...safe pastime is it to expose transgressions of city officials and gangsters in the Chicago neighborhood. Samuel Goldberg, East Chicago grocer, had told the Federal grand jury "too much." Uneasily he confided to Federal officials that he had been threatened by members of the East Chicago police force. Then a Negro friend of his persuaded him to go for a stroll. He was "put on the spot," plugged full of gangster bullets. There armed citizens stood guard night and day to prevent a general witness massacre...
...Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
...Story. Little Caesar is Rico, gangster, an able, hard-working author's serious attempt to put a contemporary U. S. type into U. S. literature...