Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bases on the new State's coasts. When, in 1938, old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and young Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald relinquished Britain's rights in these bases, even for wartime, Winston Churchill spoke hotly and prophetically. "The dark forces of the Irish underworld," he barked, "already tried to stab Britain in the back during the World War and [Prime Minister Eamon] de Valera would not be able to control them if he assumed a friendly attitude toward Britain...
...Prime Minister de Valera of Eire was handcuffed last week, if not by the "Irish underworld" then just as securely by his Briton-hating Eire political colleagues. He replied to Mr. Churchill...
During World War I Dr. Young was in charge of all venereal-disease work in the A. E. F. His job, he once told a sarcastic colonel, was to "make the underworld safe for democracy...
...fire of 1871 let loose Chicago's underworld for a brazen orgy of pillage, "the richest harvest of loot that had ever fallen to the lot of American criminals." Three hundred and fifty prisoners were freed from the flaming jail, promptly broke into a jewelry store. Through the glare scurried whores, murderers, thieves, all "scolding, stealing, fighting; laughing at the beautiful and splendid crash of walls and falling roofs...
Between 1890 and 1910 Chicago boomed again, gained 1,000,000 new citizens. "As in previous boom eras," records Asbury, "the underworld more than kept pace. . . ."A reign of terror arose...