Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite evident that if any get together plans are so be undertaken by the members of the underworld and the rulers of this country the former should have means of keeping in closer touch with each other. An underground telephone service between Cambridge and Chicago, for instance might prove of great use in bringing about that coordination of criminals, which is now so sadly lacking and which stands as a stubborn obstacle in the way of unified crime. We even go so far as to indorse such a service and to offer our plans for the opening ceremonial call...
...Hello, Central, give me the Chicago Underworld, please--Yes, hello is this Chicago--; central you cut me off. Hello, hello--Chicago Underworld? What? what was that? the Chicago Underworld? Oh, the New York Journal (in high disgust). We must have got the wires mixed...
Then just as he is about to try again the underworld river, which everybody knows flows under that part of Cambridge, begins to seep through the cracks in the floor and the distinguished gathering retreats in terror...
Shanghai Gesture-Florence Reed in the Chinese underworld...
...Canton Daily News, as he was putting away his car for the night (TIME, July 26 et seq.). An employe of Newspaper-owner James M. Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio, Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing Justice in its course by their frantic efforts to beat one another to the mystery's solution. Evidence pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton...