Word: sodom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SODOM BY THE SEA-Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson-Doubleday, Doran...
Year after the fire crime was more blatant, the police more useless than ever. From 1871 to 1894 Chicago had one active patrolman for every 20,000 residents. The Chicago Times in 1877 looked upon the rebuilt city, saw "orgies held there that . . . indicate that ancient Sodom and Gomorrah had phoenixed themselves somewhere in the neighborhood...
...Boise, Salt Lake, Portland, Cheyenne, Owosso and most of the U. S., New York, if not exactly Sodom and Gomorrah, is still the city of sin and cynicism, full of rackets. And nobody ever gave them such a bill of particulars as Thomas Dewey...