Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the State of Illinois, amply aided by Tribune investigators, concluded its case against one Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers, St. Louis gangster, accused of the Lingle murder. Reputed already to have cost $150,000 for investigations, it was one of the few famed gang murders ever to go so far as actual trial in Chicago. Defense and prosecution both produced human molecules from the stream that had been flowing through the tunnel last June 9, to try to reproduce pictures of what had happened...
Some 1,400 mourners gathered in Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus, where six years ago Knute Rockne was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. They heard Rev. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of Notre Dame University, say: "This is not death but immortality." The Rockne children (Knute Jr., William, John and Mary Jean) were there and many an oldtime Notre Dame footballer. Pallbearers were members of Rockne's last team: Tom Conley, Tom Yarr, Frank Carideo, Marchmont Schwartz, Marty Brill, Larry Mullins. Outside the church waited mourning thousands, who followed the cortege to Highland Cemetery...
...Portly Magistrate Leo Healy, cleared last summer of charges of job-buying and habitual drunkenness, resigned because of "ill health...
Sounding much like his own Skippy, embattled against the World, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby returned via Manhattan to his farm at McLean, Va. in deep disgruntlement at the Press and Powers of Chicago. He had made good on his promise to enter the territory of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone "without gun permit or bodyguard" (TIME, March 2). Sent by a Manhattan organization called the Anti-Gang Rule League he had addressed a Chicago body called the Universal Fellowship Foundation, which sings songs between its dinner courses, including a non-flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational...
...chief speaker of the evening session will be Leo Wolman, of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of President Hoover's Emergency Committee for Unemployment. Mr. Wolman will speak on "The Theory and practice of Unemployment Insurance," on which he is an authority...