Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prohibition, an experiment noble in purpose, was about to begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...
...brash ones died. Colosimo and O'Banion had been too brash. So was Hymie Weiss. Weiss was shot down several months later in front of the Holy Name Cathedral on Superior Street. Others died in doorways, in telephone booths, in alleys, in bed, at the wheels of their expensive cars. In the decade there were 4,242 homicides on the blotter of the Chicago police alone, most of them unsolved. But nobody shot Capone...
Scarcely a year out of jail, he was sentenced by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson for contempt of court. Four months later, the Federal Government rose from an examination of his riches and with a straight face made the statement that Capone had illegally withheld from the Government a cut of his ill-gotten gains. He was convicted on five of 22 counts of evading the income tax, fined $57,692.29, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, an additional year in jail for the charge of contempt. His day was dead. Depression and repeal of the 18th Amendment...
Since 1784, when John Lowell '60, business man and first of the Harvard-Lowell dynasty, was appointed to the Corporation, the Fellows have been mainly wealthy doctors, lawyers, and business men of Boston (and later New York...
...prayer and reunion around the family turkey in New York will find he is a week too late. If he wants to use his Thursday as a warm-up for the Yale week-end, he is forced to go to classes on the twenty-third. And when, a week later, he bangs on the door of Sever or Emerson, he will be refused admittance--refused the centuries-old tradition of study treasured by Harvard...