Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago police last week arrested a suspect of the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune racketeer-reporter (TIME, June 23 et seq.). But again the actual murder case was obscured by the audacity of the St. Louis Star's Reporter Harry T. Brundidge. Reporter Brundidge went to Miami Beach, Fla. to interview Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, following up the theory that Lingle was only one of many corrupt newsmen. From Florida Brundidge sent his paper a sensational story. Excerpt...
Forgotten last week was the great pledge of all Chicago newspapers to unite in avenging the murder of the Tribune's reporter Jake Lingle (TIME, June 23 et seq.) After Lingle had been exposed as racketeering with the powers of his newspaper, charges were made by Reporter Harry T. Brundidge of the St. Louis Star of similar racketeering by men of all Chicago papers. Then all the papers quarreled, eyed each other with ill-concealed suspicion...
Entirely erased from the U. S. Press is the legend of Alfred J. P. ("Jake") Lingle, Martyr-the touching story of the brave crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was shot down because he "knew too much" (TIME, June 23). Instead there had taken form by last week the story of Jake Lingle, Racketeer, who sold for fat sums the power of his newspaper to politicians, gamblers, crimesters, without his employers-who paid him $65 per week-knowing much about it. Five days after Lingle's murder the publishers of the Tribune had learned enough about the relations...
...into "rackets," mild or strong. With few exceptions, newspaper publishers look with complaisance upon the favors openly bestowed upon sports writers by promoters of this prizefight or that ball game. Many a publisher shuts his eyes to the inducements offered financial reporters. In rarer instances, such as that of Jake Lingle, when the reporter has intrenched himself solidly among racketeers, the reporting job becomes secondary to the extrajournalistic activities, the racket all-absorbing...
When Chicago's Police Commissioner William F. Russell resigned following the murder of the Tribune's newsgatherer Alfred ("Jake") Lingle (TIME, June 23), he left his position to Deputy Commissioner John H. Alcock. While Chicago waited, Mayor William Hale Thompson allowed this half-appointment to dangle almost a week without official recognizance, then suddenly issued a statement: "Alcock . . . desired to retain his. . . standing as First Deputy Commissioner in lieu of being appointed by me as Commissioner of Police. . . . My instruction to him is: drive the crooks and gangsters out of Chicago...