Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told by her sister) at six. At 17 she married Jorg von Reppert-Bismarck, not many years her elder, whose great-grandfather was the great Bismarck's first cousin. Her husband gave her the nickname "Jack" which she signs to all her paintings, and which he pronounces "Jake...
...called her Jake," he explained seriously last week in his best English, "because she look like Jakey Coogan...
...assembled in a bare room at the call of Chief Investigator Pat Roche of the State's Attorney's office. Before them was led a tall, thickset, wavy-haired young man named Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers. Investigator Roche proudly introduced him as the hired assassin of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the racketeering Tribune crime reporter, who, while walking through a pedestrian's subway beneath famed Michigan Avenue, was plugged with one neat .32 bullet in his head head head (TIME, June 23). Chicago's best murder mystery of a decade and one of the stenchiest...
...Star's beat was another personal exploit of its ace Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge, who achieved some note last summer by telling a Chicago Grand Jury that the murdered Jake Lingle was by no means Chicago's only racketeering newsman; that he had found a dozen others who worked hand-in-glove with the underworld...
...glory was a book, fast gaining popularity, advertised widely with photographs of the hero's fat, coarse face, entitled Al Capone, The Biography Of A Self-Made Man* It was written by Fred D. Pasley, onetime rewrite man for the Chicago Tribune, often collaborator with Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. Author Pasley seems to know his gangs. He portrays the rise to a tycoondom of vice of once obscure Hoodlum Capone, gives it a macabre grandeur. Author Pasley does not hesitate to link the Big Shot himself to many a gruesome murder. Final sentence of his biography...