Word: underworlders
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...