Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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College drinkers care little what happens to the Eighteenth Amendment. They drink--amendment or no amendment but with repeal of the prohibition act a college education would cost them less. On the other hand, the gents of the underworld focus their attention on the activities of the lawmakers. Their jobs depend upon a continuance of the present lawlessness of liquor sale...
Crime, in its bloody ugliness, would not drop from sight if underworld liquor traffic were ceased. Hundreds of "gat" toters would be without employment and without subsistence. Would that not be more of a temptation to commit crime than a mere "bump off" order from a whisky mogul? The underworld was not created by prohibition, but it has become enormously rich from its major industry...
...interested in are perfectly normal, perfectly "nice." Minne was a most romantic young Parisienne. When her mother thought she was doing her history lesson she was really thrilling over the newspaper account of the latest Apache gang fight. So intensely did Minne dream about becoming Queen of the Underworld that when a handsome young loafer stared at her one day, the rest was inevitable. One night she thought she saw him under her window, ran down to catch him, but he was gone. So she looked for him and got lost in one of the worst quarters of Paris. Though...
What Chief Roche did not explain, what set ugly rumors flying was the question: Who hired Brothers to shoot Lingle? Conjectures were plentiful because the Tribune reporter was too deeply enmeshed in underworld affairs not to have made many a gangster enemy...
...exploit of its ace Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge, who achieved some note last summer by telling a Chicago Grand Jury that the murdered Jake Lingle was by no means Chicago's only racketeering newsman; that he had found a dozen others who worked hand-in-glove with the underworld...