Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Gang's executive headquarters, according to Means, was at No. 903 16th St., a large comfortable house, rented for $1,000 per month where Means, drawing $83-33 per week as a U. S. investigator, lived with five servants, a car and chauffeur. In its backyard, Means claims, was concealed the gang's cash, sometimes $500,000, never less than $50,000. Later this money would be deposited in a bank at Washington Court House, Ohio...
Meanwhile steel production and freight car loadings-two vital indices of industrial activity-continued to decline. Orders from railroads, which had been keeping up steel production, were declining and the automobile business showed no sign of any throbbing life. The market closed the week in a "recession" brought about by unfavorable estimates, particularly from Western Union, of first quarter earnings...
...sporty dresser, he used to put on mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, athletic director at the University of Chicago: "Since Prohibition hundreds of thousands more children have had a fairer start in life than before. The saloons were our substitutes for the movies, the theatres, the motor car, the radio, the seashore, reading and all. ... I can state with absolute confidence that drinking is not a problem at the U. of C., that only a very small percentage of the students drink...
...Springfield gathered disgruntled delegates from eleven of the 20 U. M. W. districts. They came in third-hand automobiles, on freight-car rods, by hitchhiking. Theirs was a vindictive mood. Leaders who had summoned them?John H. Walker, Illinois Federation of Labor president; Harry Fishwick, president of Illinois U. M. W.; Frank Farrington, past president of Illinois U. M. W.; Alexander Howatt, president of the Kansas U. M. W. ?they treated with rowdy distrust. Suspicious of "steam roller" methods, they insisted that the most trivial proceedings be openly transacted on the floor before them. A tremendous uproar occurred when...