Word: vagrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week before the bar of justice in Chicago stood Jack Guzik, notorious gangster, payoff man for Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. The charge was "vagrancy," a legal excuse conceived by Judge John H. Lyle who issued warrants for 26 "vagrant" Chicago thugs and thereby received national publicity (TIME, Oct. 13). The State set out to show that "Vagrant" Guzik had no visible livelihood...
...defense was simple. Mr. Guzik, it argued, was not a "vagrant." He was a gambler. Do not Vice President Curtis and Governor Emmerson both attend race meetings? May it not be presumed that they make wagers at the race tracks? Did not Gambler Guzik own a fine home not a block away from State's Attorney Swanson's? Why, so far from being a reprehensible "vagrant," Mr. Guzik was a "credit" to the community. After brief deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "That's fine!" cried Mr. Guzik. "I knew you gentlemen would...
...still a bachelor in spite of many reported engagements, he has retained yachting as his major hobby. As a boy of 12 he had spent his vacations knocking around the Ida Lewis lighthouse. In 1913 he sailed his yacht Vagrant from Portsmouth, Maine to Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes...
...Klein, prosperous Cincinnati lawyer, hastened to the station, was less astounded to find his vagrant friend James Eads How there than to see him so decrepit. They sped to the Klein home. A doctor was summoned...
...love of all mankind became concentrated to a particular interest in wandering, jobless workmen. He stubbornly believed that every vagrant could be persuaded to work. Newspapers ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed...