Word: underworlders
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Sweet Mama (First National). Because Alice White is the most attractive blonde of her weight in pictures, the scenes in which she appears are bearable, although this whole production is hackneyed, dull and amateurish. It is an unsuccessful combination of the usual elements of underworld plots; its crisis involves Miss White in efforts to get her sweetheart out of a predicament in which she has involved him by gathering evidence against the owner of the night-club where he works. Typical shot: police car chasing the car in which the hero is being taken for a ride...
...Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
...event, the Tribune said last week, those things "could be important leads into the crimes of the underworld, but their presentation has changed the atmosphere from one of co-operation to one of hostility. . . . The search [for Lingle's murderer] is confused and obstructed by publishers who should be interested in making the pursuit relentless wherever it leads. . . . The decency and honesty of newspaper work in this city is on public trial...
Than the morning News of Canton, Ohio has had few newspapers of wider fame. In 1926 it became a national figure when its editor, Don R. Mellett, was assassinated for his crusade against an alliance of the police and the underworld in Canton, (TIME, July 26; Aug. 2, 1926). In 1927 that crusade was posthumously rewarded with the Pulitzer prize. Yet the News did not pay. Its owner, James M. Cox, Ohio's ofttime (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21) Governor and the Democratic Presidential nominee of 1920, had bought it as a rundown property from Henry Holiday Timken...
...sums the power of his newspaper to politicians, gamblers, crimesters, without his employers-who paid him $65 per week-knowing much about it. Five days after Lingle's murder the publishers of the Tribune had learned enough about the relations between their "city room" and Chicago's underworld to order off the front page the Martyr Lingle story. Meantime other investigators heard and published embarrassing details...