Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article concerning the upstanding, two-fisted Col. Randolph who is going to put the fear of God in the Chicago underworld (TIME, Oct. 13). "Terrible Terry," "Three-fingered Jack," "Red Somebody," and a few others are rounded up and presumably life and liberty in Chicago are safe once again, by the simple expedient of locking up a few tenderloin bums. Wonderful...
...would-be successor Diamond was. Both were assailed in a hotel bedroom. Both staggered out, were carried by the same doctor to the same hospital, to the same room. Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code...
...Cambridge police force who performs the specialized task of bringing into court those defendants in domestic cases who refuse to obey the stipulations of the probation officer and who refuse to come into court of their own accord. Mr. Donovan has developed a reputation in Cambridge for knowing the underworld...
...Last week it was announced (by Hearstpapers) that a subscription fund aiming at $1,000,000 was being raised in the underworld to rid Chicago of Police Commissioner John H. Alcock, appointed after the Lingle killing to rid the city of gangsters...
Jack Holt is the successful broker-racketeer of the type with whom most theatre-goers are familiar. His wife is the loving type who knows nothing of her husband's affairs with the underworld, while the "Sonny Boy" element is introduced in "Davey Lee" who makes his entree into the domestic scene singing "Rockaby Baby...