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...ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John...
...Prohibition Association is making, or plans to make, similar campaigns in other states, and then burst a mass of statistics upon the country. Are professional agitators and faked figures to invade even the academic world for the benefit of Wayne B. Wheeler's pocketbook or the purses of his gang...
Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called...
...After four years in a position to learn the facts I am going out of office with the most hearty contempt not only for the morals and the intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest...
There had been another battle down in Little Egypt,± and of all the places for a good machine-gun-spattering, bomb-throwing fight there was none better, than the late "Shady Rest." Not far from Herrin, Ill., it was the pastoral citadel of Charles Birger, bootlegger, gunman, gang chieftain. Carl Shelton, whose profession is the same as Mr. Birger's, had set out to get Mr. Birger. The ruins and the four dead bodies were the result. But Messrs. Birger and Shelton are still alive and plotting. Perhaps, they will really get one another some day. Their attempts...