Word: john
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Chicago's criminals continued flourishing last week, such criminals as whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well...
Still more hopeful, a new State's attorney was getting ready to enter office in Cook County, Judge John A. Swanson. Robert E. Crowe, the Republican incumbent beaten by Swanson in the primary last spring, is the political "pardner" of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson. Crowe tried to "knife" Judge Swanson in last month's election and "throw" the office to the Democratic candidate. Many another Republican lost out but Judge Swanson prevailed and last week was preparing to rake out Crowe's politico-criminal mess. Instruments ready at hand were some able assistants of Special...
When he got back in office last year, Mayor Thompson called loudly upon men like President James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co., Utility Man Samuel Insull, John Hertz of Yellow Cabs, William (Gum) Wrigley Jr. and Promoter George F. Getz, to serve on a grandiose committee which later proved to be only one more vehicle for Thompsonian publicity. With the Mayor increasingly bogged and discredited, the Mayor's committee has awakened to its opportunity, to Chicago's necessity. Last week the Chicago potentates were considering taking .the city's affairs-debts, taxes, crime, public works...
Most deeply concerned about catching Omaha's hatchet-man was Omaha's new police-chief, John J. ("Gentleman Jack") Pszanowski. Chief Pszanowski, a Polish miner's son who began walking a beat in Omaha 20 years ago and reached his present eminence last July, is something new in police chiefs. He does not believe in violence. He is supposed to have used his night stick only twice in his career. Says he: "The day of the bully is done. The day of the treat-'em-rough policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves...
Secretary of Labor James John Davis reminisced of iron-puddling, mule driving. The color of his speech was roseate: "The long work day and the long work week is as dead as a dodo. . . . Prosperity is not the product of the classes; it is the product of the masses . . . labor-saving machines are rapidly becoming leisure-producing machines...