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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/15/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lingle, Darrow | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/1/1930 | See Source »

Buckley's friends last week admitted he might have underworld dealings, but they insisted his record of recent years (investigator for Henry Ford in the Newberry case, special investigator on other cases for the U. S. Government, two years as a radio crusader, winter employment aid) demonstrated that he no longer trod dark paths, was trying to make a moral name for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Death in Detroit | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

City Editor Lee promptly filed notice of a $250,000 libel suit, charged that the editorial implied he knew of Lingle's $60,000-a-year underworld operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Innate Verecundity | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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