Word: snorkey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Guilty," mumbled the porcine racketeer. Having thus made himself liable to 34 years imprisonment and $90,000 in fines arising from charges brought during the previous fortnight (TIME, June 15, 22), Public Enemy Capone ("Snorkey" to his cronies), attired in a sulphur- colored suit, was hurried off to the freight elevator remarking that he "hoped everybody was satisfied...
Secretary Mellon may not get all of Snorkey's $215.000 in delinquent taxes, for most of the racketeer's worldly goods have been shrewdly placed in his wife's and mother's names. And there was small chance of Capone's getting all of the Federal punishment coming to him. Snorkey's attorneys believed that by saving the Government the trouble of a trial they may get their client off with a sentence of three years for both offenses. Still pending is a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9). Capone, now aged 33, hopes that...
Meantime, word came that Johnny ("The Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions to the Chicago gangland throne will probably not go unchallenged. Hardly had the Capone pleas been entered last week before two gunmen were shot down in a reawakened feud between the South Side gangs of Frank McErlane and Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell. Attorney Johnson said that the Government also...
Leading executives of Snorkey & Co. indicted last week were: Joe Fusco, business manager of the syndicate's beer department; Bert Delaney, superintendent of manufactures; Steve Swoboda, veteran brewmaster. Snorkey is liable to two years imprisonment, $10,000 fine if convicted. Federal punishment now hanging over the head of the arch criminal: 34½ years in prison, $90,000 in fines. So impressed was Snorkey by the magnitude of the threatened punishment, it was said last week, that he offered to "compromise" the case with the Government by payment of $4,000,000. But officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced law in Chicago since 1900. plays much golf badly. So confident was he that the Capone gang has been financially wrecked that he permitted Snorkey to go free on the $50,000 already posted...