Word: weiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Walter Jacobs & Albert Weiss: the open pair championship of the American Contract Bridge League, outplaying in other pairs of top-notch players from 21 States, Canada and South America; at Pittsburgh...
...following: Alan J. Ansen '42, Woodmere, L.I.; Joseph N. Bah, Jr. '40, Philadelphia; James S. Clarke '40, La Grange, III.; Viasios Georgian '41, Quincy; Robert A. Keller '42, Cleveland; William H. Kruskal '40, New Rochelle, N.Y.; John E. Leffler '42, Waban; Paul Olum '40, Binghampton, N.Y.; Emanual G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park, Pa.; John H. Wulsin '42, Cincinnati...
...Banion mob was wild. In a cavalcade of seven cars, led by Hymie Weiss they went openly to Cicero's Hawthorne Hotel, Capone's headquarters, sprayed the windows with Thompson submachine guns. Capone crouched out of harm...
...brash ones died. Colosimo and O'Banion had been too brash. So was Hymie Weiss. Weiss was shot down several months later in front of the Holy Name Cathedral on Superior Street. Others died in doorways, in telephone booths, in alleys, in bed, at the wheels of their expensive cars. In the decade there were 4,242 homicides on the blotter of the Chicago police alone, most of them unsolved. But nobody shot Capone...
...untouched. Federal Judge Thomas Whitfield Davidson in Dallas, ruling last month on a writ of habeas corpus in the "hot oil" case, declared that Mayor Maestri was "just as guilty" as Seymour Weiss and Richard Leche...