Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxie and Lane have been sent out on tour, to New York and Washington. A sample of Oxie's style and philosophy: "Congress is bending an ear to the farmers, to the unions, to the veterans, to the big shots, to this bloc and that group. I wish some time somebody would rise up in the House and holler ... a kind word for the miscellaneous lugs like Oxie O'Rourke. . . . But I'm afraid the other lobbyists would gang up on us, claiming we was un-American...
...Never Scooped. White-thatched Clem Lane has been doing Oxie pieces for about six years. Oxie came into being when Mayor Edward J. Kelly (ever since a target of Oxie's meat ax) was trying to legalize Chicago's large population of bookmakers. The Daily News editorialized against it, and Lane, who knew his way around the handbooks, invented Oxie as a wiseacring mouthpiece...
Close by the Daily News building was Louie's saloon, where a bookie named Moxie shined a well-tailored elbow on the bar. He met Lane next day: "Who's this guy Oxie? The cops'll be thinking he's me." Lane fumbled only an instant: "You don't know Oxie? Why that's Oxie O'Rourke, down the street." Thus Oxie got a last name...
...Lane, Oxie is "the perfect answer for a newspaperman; he can't be scooped because he knows everything. He is the voice of the people west of the tracks...
West of the tracks, near the sprawling stockyards, is where Clem Lane was born 46 years ago, and much of Oxie's slangy. slipshod idiom springs from Lane's playmates and his long acquaintance with Chicago's Irish cops...