Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little while at Tome School and at Annapolis where he stroked his class crew, George Bancroft became an actor. Like other actors from the East, he went into pictures to play western villains. In Driven he was billed as The Smiling Villain. Smiling villainy became his specialty. When Underworld set box-office records and a fashion for crook stories, he was made a star. Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along. Last spring...
Such could never be the method of President Hoover. Yet last spring he did name Capone by name and though averse to "drives" of any sort by the Federal power, he did tell newsgatherers that concerted Federal action would be taken against the thriving Underworld. He said the line would be prosecution for violations of the income-tax and other (Volstead, Harrison, Mann, Dyer) Government statutes (TIME, May 19). He cited the indictment for income-tax fraud of Scarface's brother, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, to illustrate the kind of action he meant...
...answer to A. R. Baldwin Jr.'s question has been: "Because it is the centre of the telegraph and the telephone lines, news goes to more places from Chicago than from any other city." It is also true that: Chicago newspapers have played-up Chicago's underworld most persistently and sensationally; Chicago's murders have been most sensational intrinsically (viz. the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929); Chicago has had fewer policemen and more nationally-known criminals per square mile than any U. S. city; crime in Chicago is more highly organized than anywhere else...
...West writes crudely, theatrically, about crude, theatric, low-life types; is crudely effective. She seems to know her Harlem, her thieves' argot, her underworld women...
...about the elected representatives of the people, the Chicago politicians, the Judiciary, the Police, the Newspaper Community of Chicago who sold out the people to the underworld of Chicago for a share of the swag...