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TIME'S authority: Thomas Beer's The Mauve Decade. But Subscriber Lewis' version, minimizing hoots & jeers, is perhaps more exact...
...fine of $80.000 (TIME, June 15), he and 68 henchmen were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition laws. The true bill did not mention the various Capone sidelines such as gambling, bordellos, whiskey peddling, specified only the "manufacture and transportation of beer for beverage purposes in the Chicago area on a large scale." Brought to light were 5.000 separate offenses, the unit of manufacture for each offense being one 1,500 gal. vat of beer, the unit of transportation one 30-bbl. truckload...
Evidence against Capone and his followers had been gathered by Prohibition agents with the co-operation of the same agents who dug up the grounds for his tax evasion indictment. Their facts and figures had the sound of Big Business. The Capone beer syndicate, they found, had a daily turnover of $75.000, an annual gross income of $27,000,000, or $270,000,000 for the ten years it has been in operation. The personal Capone fortune was reckoned at $20,000,000, although agents were only able to find direct evidence of a $260,000 maximum annual income...
...before him two graceful Spanish buildings. He is not quite sure about the Spanish part, but the structures stood on a moor anyway. Over the front door of one was a stork medallion; that would be the "Lying In" hospital Over the front door of the other dangled a beer bottle from the window above; that would be the medical school...
...portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan. It was the "47th, 48th & 49th Fiscal Meetings and First Bicentennial Hard Times Party'' of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, a thriving, purposeless organization of men who at some time or other manned...