Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumps. He arrived in time for this week's bitter mayoral primary election in which he and his activities had become a hot campaign issue between Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and Judge John Homer Lyle, candidates for the Republican nomination. Ducking out of sight into his underworld, he supervised his "political interests" while in the upperworld sheriffs were deputized, American Legionaries recruited to preserve order. Judge Lyle challenged the police to serve his vagrancy warrant on Capone as the city's No. 1 Public Enemy...
...have the city's 26 "Public Enemies" arrested and held in exorbitant bail under an old vagrancy law (TIME, Oct. 13). So erratic and unstable that he had scant support from lawyers, Judge Lyle focused his campaign on the charge that Mayor Thompson was in league with the underworld, that Gangster Alphonse Capone had contributed $50,000 to the last Thompson campaign and was now ready to help the Mayor steal the forthcoming primary election. He summarized: "The real issue is whether Al Capone is to be authorized to rule Chicago again through the medium of a dummy...
Born in Brooklyn 34 years ago, Alphonse Capone started up to the top of U. S. crime on May 12, 1920 when James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, whose lowly bodyguard Capone was in the Chicago underworld, was assassinated...
When a criminal comes to Boston, according to Hultman, he immediately finds that he is being constantly trailed by the police. Any infraction of the law will insure his being locked up. This shadowing prevents the crook's getting a start in the underworld here; it upsets his morale, and discourages his stay. The roving auto patrols which have been almost doubled since Hultman became commissioner last May, place the thug in constant danger of being surprised at work or being picked up as a suspicious character...
...crime problems cannot call a halt to thoughts and suggestions toward prohibition repeal or revision. Educationally or economically the underworld can be conquered--victory being only a matter of 10 or more years...