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DRAMATIC Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore), The Enemy (Lillian Gish), The Crowd (Eleanor Boardman...
...elsewhere as a hand-grenade. Since the first of the year they have been utilized 21 times by racketeers angry for one reason or another with fellow racketeers, politicians, bootleggers, gamblers. Last week "pineapples" exploded on the doorsteps of U. S. Senator Charles S. Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson. The results were mild for Chicago; no one was killed; only the fronts of two houses were blown to splinters...
...above deeds and why remained a mystery-the usual Chicago bombing mystery. Posters were tacked on fences and poles throughout the city, advertising $65,000 in rewards for information concerning the Deneen and Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and others were sponsors of the rewards. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Michael Hughes reported: "It is almost impossible to trace bombers. There are 50 places in the city where dynamite can be purchased just as a person buys a package of cigarets...
...editorial went on to say: "Citizens may be in doubt whether some supporters of Senator Deneen and Judge Swanson blew up their homes to elect their tickets, as Mr. Thompson and State's Attorney Crowe contend, or whether supporters of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe blew up Mr. Deneen's house and Judge Swanson's house to elect the ticket of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Crowe. This is indeed a puzzle and a bewilderment, at this writing not near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from...
...choosing a new Minister to Egypt, to succeed Senator Willis' friend, J. Morton Howell, the President listened to Senator Swanson (Virginia) and prepared to elevate Franklin Mott Gunther, a "career man" from New York and Virginia and whose 20-year service has embraced France, Nicaragua, Portugal, Brazil, Norway, Britain, Holland, Italy and the Mexican division of the State Department...