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...years ago the Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...
...racketeer, just out of prison, decides to go straight on falling in love with a country girl and changes his mind when he finds out she is crooked too. The complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady, introduced in early sequences as Lila Lee's grandmother, revealed as an astute, avaricious criminal...
...father was member of a gang of rustlers who ran cattle from Montana to the Mexican border. Young Lee soon found out what it was all about. When his father and mother quarreled, Lee ran away. He joined some Ute Indians, learned all about horses and cattle, became their No. 1 broncobuster. Says Buster Sage: no man should stay too long on a bucker; 20 seconds is plenty. Once he stayed 30, and was sick and dizzy afterwards; when he stayed three minutes, he had to be carried off, bleeding from the nose and mouth...
Capone left Chicago just before a lone gangster in his south side district shot to death-three rival gunsters in a-saloon. Capone also left these rumors behind him: 1). His gang and that of George ("Bugs") Moran, his enemy, had merged for friendly and efficient operation of their common rackets; 2) He had gone into the political patronage racket at City Hall in a big way; 3) He had extended his "protective influence" to the building trades and plumbing unions. Newsmen at police headquarters were advised to "lay off Al," on the theory that so much publicity on Capone...
...full dress suit. In the bewildered, terrified crowds in the street he met Enrico Caruso and Diamond Jim Brady. They took back to New York the story that Barrymore had "dressed" for the earth quake. The commander of a local U. S. Army post recruited him to boss a gang of men in reconstruction work. He wrote home a harrowing account of his experiences, asking for funds. When asked if he believed the story, his uncle John Drew said: "I believe every word of it. It took a convulsion of Nature to make...