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...promote good government throughout India the British Raj pardoned and released from jail last week numerous pickpockets and minor criminals, thus making room for followers of Mahatma Gandhi. Some 350 criminals were released from Yerovda Jail where St. Gandhi is held on no charge "during His Majesty's pleasure...
Wrhen the votes were counted Cicero, with Scarface Al in jail, had gone Democratic. Elected as chief executive of the village (population: 66,602) was Joseph George Cerny, 36, strapping Wartime engineer, job printer, electrical worker. Most of Cicero's home-loving Bohemians work in Western Electric Co.'s nearby Hawthorne plant...
...defeating his opponent, a plodding, slight little Bohemian named Joseph Z. Klenha, President-elect Cerny's platform was: "Undesirables must go! Jail for the gangsters and payrolls for public employes!" Elected, he declared: "Most of the citizens are of foreign extraction. They are home-loving people and ask only for peace and good government. They'll get it." They will also still be able to get their beer at Cicero's 175 dispensaries...
...Chicago, and to a lesser extent throughout the country. James Herbert Wilkerson is something of a judicial hero. His promotion by President Hoover was frankly the result of "his splendid service" in curbing gang activities. He it was who sent notorious Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake to jail. Last summer he capped a long and successful record of imprisoning gangsters when he refused to countenance a "deal" between Scarface Capone himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When...
...talked to in six months who didn't ask me to give him some money to pay his grandmother's hospital bill. ... I took the job as mayor because the town was getting overrun with the wrong kind of people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down. That made me mad, so I built a Presbyterian church to get even...