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...repeating shotguns at two men who had emerged from a fish shop and were entering a parked automobile. The targets died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld...
...game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California. There she is as loving a wife as any man could wish. But her husband grows restless; he cannot be happy for long unless he has a gun in his hand. He goes back into the racket; and she, loyal but violently protesting, goes with him. And finally . . . no, that would be telling too much. Ladies of the Mob is excellent entertainment, if you refrain from getting analytical about the plot...
UNDERWORLD RACKET THE DRAG NET (George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent), LADIES OF THE MOB (Clara Bow and Richard Arlen). These two cinemae were written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime crack reporter of the New York World...
Assaying did not take long; the engineers hastened to Manhattan with analyzed data. Mr. Dillon, solitary in the great silence of his soundproof office downtown, studied them. Mr. Chrysler, less sensitive to racket, studied them at his office in midtown Madison Avenue. When he went to his Park Avenue home four blocks away he was preoccupied, and servants avoided disturbing...
...remarkable record of these past few weeks in respect to dampness, a few sunny days did emerge from the general deluge to cheer those who were beginning to have visions of forty days ceaseless rain. The natural impulse under those circumstances was to don white flannels, exhume racket and spheroids, and travel as swiftly as possible to Soldiers Field; and exactly this was done by students whose number might without exaggeration be described as a throng...