Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the county solicitor could complain of, however, was the gentleman's reputation. He, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, is notorious as, but not legally recorded as, the fattest spider in the web of Chicago's criminal underworld. All that the Miami officials could do was explain to Mr. Capone that people did not like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami...
...Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld, jealous barons are likely to plot and shoot ambitiously...
Another cause for unrest in the Chicago underworld was a special grand jury's investigation of thuggeries committed during Chicago's recent primary election. Last week the jury indicted 24 men, including State Senator James B. Leonardo and one Martin Klass, a nephew of the City Collector...
...GANGS OF NEW YORK-An Informal History of the Underworld-Herbert Asbury-Knopf...
...trial for murder. A stoolpigeon takes the stand to testify against him. In a hotel room opposite the courtroom, a man is toying with a golf club; good-naturedly, he steps to the window, picks up a rifle, shoots the stoolpigeon. That is the beginning of a lusty underworld melodrama written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime reporter for the New York World, produced by Paramount, acted by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell...