Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Patrick A. ("Paddy") Roche, oldtime fight promoter, proprietor of the famed Red Carpet Saloon (first Manhattan cafe to have a carpet), referee of the bout in 1889 when John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain after 75 bare-knuckle rounds at Richburg, Miss.; of heart disease; at the Hotel Breslin, Manhattan...
Swart Jack Zuta, business manager of Chicago's North Side (anti-Capone) crime gang was suspected by police of having planned the murder of Capone's friend, Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle of the Chicago Tribune (TIME, June 23). He narrowly escaped death last month when foes opened fire on an automobile of which he was an occupant in South State Street. Last week swart Jack Zuta strolled across the dance floor of a roadhouse at Delafield, Wis. He had just telephoned a girl in Chicago. He had a dime in his hand which he dropped into the mechanical...
Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge of the St. Louis Star entered a grand jury room in Chicago last week, remained three hours to elaborate on his printed stories that many Chicago newsmen, like the murdered "Jake" Lingle of the Tribune, are actually, racketeers (TIME. June 23. et seq.). As he emerged Reporter Brundidge was met by a hostile group of Chicago newshawks. What had been his testimony? Reporter Brundidge was sorry, he could not answer. Then Reporter Hilding Johnson of the Herald & Examiner asked...
Shortly thereafter, the Herald & Examiner said in an editorial: "It is understood that Robert M. Lee, City editor of the Tribune, had been for about nine years a close friend of 'Jake' Lingle. The grand jury might call Mr. Lee and inquire what he knows ... of the activities of Lingle before he was murdered...
...Public Health Service and the Prohibition Bureau traced the poisonous Jamaica ginger (colloquially called "ginger jake," "jakey") from the consumers to distributors in Cincinnati and Johnson City, Tenn., then to the Manhattan and Boston manufacturers, who were indicted for violation of the Prohibition Amendment. The inclusion of the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol in the Jamaica ginger was an accident of careless manufacture...