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...Gang Angle. Bootleg gangsters hold Senator Deneen responsible for a recent attempt at Prohibition enforcement, in which raids were staged on eleven cabarets that considered themselves immune from such treatment. That may have inspired the bombing as well as the assassination of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, gangster, Deneen henchman of the 25th ward, flashy hero of Chicago's Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond...
...Later in the week, Chief of Police Hughes sent out 525 policemen in automobiles with orders to arrest not bombers, but U. S. Prohibition agents. Said he: "Bring in the whole gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...
...same old sorrows and self pity are fast taking new expression in "sweet Blues comin' from a black man's soul-achin' hearted Blues, all alone Blues, baby-won't-you-please-come-home Blues, chain-gang Blues, mo' Blues than angels in Heaven can sing...
...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang...
...dozen penny dreadfuls, threepenny thrillers: a fight with sledgehammer and dirk in the lurid shadows of a gypsy fire-Claire's body gleaming white but for the dark cords that bind her ankles and wrists; a struggle in the dank blackness of a railway tunnel which a gang of Claire's suitors blockade at one end, while others sneak in opposite: "Kill the man, but save the wench! . . ."A relic of civilized scruple holds Martin from killing a hairy giant furnaceman, because he has sprawled over the tracks and technically is down. But Claire sees the prostrate giant...