Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone appeared at the Municipal Courthouse to answer a charge of vagrancy, the antique legal device by which loud Judge John Homer Lyle once hoped to curb the city's banditti (TIME, Oct. 13). The officer who had signed the complaint against Scarface admitted that he did not know him, could not swear that the gangster was without legal means of support or "frequented disreputable resorts...
Married. Hyrum, 73, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; to his neighbor, Mrs. Hannah Lyle Chapman, 37; by Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Bishop Edward L. Solomon; in Salt Lake City. Father Dempsey divorced Mrs. Cecelia Dempsey, mother of "Jack," in 1919; married Lottie Dexter Blasingame in 1924, was divorced by her five months later. Said Mother Dempsey to inquiring reporters: "None of the public's business when we were divorced, if we ever were divorced. I don't care what he does. That's his business...
What "Big Bill" & friends were celebrating was his fourth Republican nomination to be Chicago's Mayor. Throughout the city, election boards were adding up primary ballots which would show that he had beaten Judge John Homer Lyle by some 67,000 votes...
...Republican campaign between Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle had been rough and raucous, bombastic and brutal. Yet in the election itself there were no shootings, no sluggings, no kidnappings, no ballot-stealing, only a few bloody noses. Against the Mayor had been arrayed the Tribune, the News, the Snow-Harding organization, the Deneen forces. That he had won the nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle...
...Judge Lyle, chastened, went back to his bench. Gangster Capone, happy, went into Federal Court to answer contempt charges (see p. 12). Mayor Thompson, exhausted, went to a Michigan sanatorium to build up strength for the campaign against Nominee Cermak which ends with the election April...