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...Gang War. Whatever may be Willard Mack's inadequacies as a playwright, there are seldom, in his opera, those fearful stretches, common in the works of the worst dramatists, in which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king...
...Sussar who gave his age as 20 and his height as 38 inches. Scowling and cursing, the little monstrosity was dragged into court where he dodged under a chair and remained hidden for 15 minutes. When hauled out Max Sussar claimed that he was "only the lookout" for his gang. Twisting his pitiful face into a look of rage, he sat in a chair, swinging his let's. "I like rye whiskey and women," he told reporters...
...worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten for his own office, last week, by Nelson Schwab, a son of the late Dr. Louis Schwab, Cincinnati Mayor in the gang-ridden days of the late Boss Rud K. Hynicka. All but one of the Taft ticketmates were beaten, too. People said it was because the Citizens' Republican Committee "slung mud," i.e., preached reform so militantly that its foes became goodfellow martyrs...
...Such a management assumes that the only durable influences in Chicago political action are the influences of the racketeers, bombers, machine gunners, kidnappers, beer needlers, panders, joint keepers, gamblers, pay roll mendicants and petty thieves, fee robbers, habitual criminals, immunized murderers, and such gang chiefs as are able to keep away from each other's gun fire and enjoy the protection of official patronage on strictly business terms...
...This the political hoodlum, highbinder, and hijacking combination which had things in hand until the votes were counted April 10 after a campaign of political assassination, house bombing, ballot box stuffing, intimidation, assault and every kind of gang terrorism...