Word: snorkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flashlamps fizzed in Chicago's crowded Federal Court last week. Guards banged shut the doors. Beginning was the decisive battle in the Federal Government's long campaign to put Alphonse ("Scarface" to strangers; "Snorkey" to friends) Capone in prison. For three years the Government had waged its campaign, spent over $195,000 on it. For almost as long Gangster Capone had been trying to sidestep charges that he failed to pay a Federal tax on $1,038,654 income during the years 1924?29. Now Scarface Snorkey was on trial...
...years Chicago has had six new police commissioners. Each change has heralded a fresh campaign to "clean up the city," but Chicago today is as crime-ridden as ever. Last week's news was that Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone had organized the city's saloons into such a perfect chain that he was selling them not only their liquor supplies but everything down to ginger ale and table linen. So Chicagoans were not excited last week when Mayor Anton J. Cermak abruptly ousted Commissioner John Alcock and appointed in his place Captain James P. ("Iron Man" ) Allman. Mayor Cermak...
...long campaign which the Federal Government has been conducting to put Chicago's Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone in jail for a good long time, moved toward its decisive phase last week, and in two preliminary skirmishes Gangster Capone was victorious. In July Capone appeared before U. S. District Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to be sentenced for failure to pay tax on a $1,038,654 income and for conspiracy (with 5,000 offenses) to violate the Prohibition law, to which he had pleaded guilty. But to Judge Wilkerson had come word that between Capone's Attorney Michael Ahern...
...career as a Public Enemy, "Snorkey" or "Scarface" Capone has been publicly accused of many a foul crime, including murder. He has served one year in prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted to. But not to greasy, grinning Capone belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests...
...Snorkey & Hancock...