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Book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime

Download or read book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime  Abridged

Download or read book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime Abridged written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago Crime.

Book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime  Abridged

Download or read book Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime Abridged written by Edward Dean Sullivan and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at organized crime in Chicago during prohibition

Book Chicago Surrenders     A Sequel to  Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime

Download or read book Chicago Surrenders A Sequel to Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime written by Edward Dean SULLIVAN and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organized Crime

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  • Author : United States. National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. Task Force on Organized Crime
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Organized Crime written by United States. National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. Task Force on Organized Crime and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards designed for adoption at the state and local levels for the purpose of preventing and reducing organized crime in America are presented in this comprehensive report. The standards recommended in this report were formulated to assist all sectors of the community, as well as the agencies of state and local governments. As a unit, these standards constitute a comprehensive plan for the prevention and control of organized criminal activity in this country. Following the introductory remarks, a brief history of organized criminal activity in the united states, a description of the general characteristics of organized crime, and the results of a study of the various ways state and local governments have dealt with the problem are presented. Part 3 of this report presents standards to guide state and local governments, officials of the criminal justice system, and private citizens in the design and implementation of programs to combat organized criminal operations. These standards are based on successful models operating in the states or on concepts that the task force and the national advisory committee considered necessary for effective prevention and control of organized crime. Proposals for state and local administrative and regulatory agencies to participate in organized crime control programs to the fullest extent of their statutory authority are contained in chapter 4. The standards in chapters 5 through 8 recommend specific policies, law enforcement mechanisms, prosecutorial tools, and legal procedures for adoption by the criminal justice system. The standards in chapter 9 recommend that appropriate training programs in organized crime control be instituted for all levels of the criminal justice system. General educational programs for the private sector are also recommended.

Book Gambling in America

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  • Author : United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1430 pages

Download or read book Gambling in America written by United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Let s Talk Turkey

Download or read book Let s Talk Turkey written by Rosemarie Ostler and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respected linguist Ostler demystifies more than 150 colorful homegrown figures of speech. She traces each saying from its first known appearance in print to its place in modern English, uncovering a host of cultural and historical tidbits along the way.

Book Looking Backward

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  • Author : Walter Roth
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2005-08-30
  • ISBN : 0897338278
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Looking Backward written by Walter Roth and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays chronicling the Jewish history of Chicago, from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex, and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II. There are six broad themes, each of which includes several essays: the first of which is “Chicago Jews and the Secular City: Builders, Movers, Shakers” about HL Mettes’s huge 1924 history of Chicago Jews; financier Lazarus Silverman; the U of C Centennial; Jewish participation in the World’s Columbian Exposition; Julius Rosenwald and the Museum of Science & Industry and the Jewish Day Pageant at the Century of Progress in 1933. The other five themes are “Chicago Jews and Anti-Semitism: Tragedy Abroad, Challenges at Home”; “Chicago Jews and Zionism: Local Idealists”; “Chicago Jews and Zionism: Renowned Visitors”; “Chicago Jews and the Arts: The Page and the Stage” and “Chicago Jews on Both Sides of the Law: Colorful Characters.” Anyone interested in Chicago history, ethnic history, Jewish history, will find Looking Backward a fascinating and informative read. Praise for Looking Backward “Roth writes about the well known and the not so well known, bringing to life the people, events, and institutions that shaped the Jewish community.” —Booklist

Book Guns and Roses

Download or read book Guns and Roses written by Rose Keefe and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses traces O'Banion's rise from Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss ...

Book Books for All

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  • Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book Books for All written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organized Crime

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  • Author : United States. National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Organized Crime written by United States. National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Girls of Murder City

Download or read book The Girls of Murder City written by Douglas Perry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and how an intrepid "girl reporter" named Maurine Watkins turned the beautiful, media-savvy suspects-"Stylish Belva" and "Beautiful Beulah"-into the talk of the town. Fueled by rich period detail and a cast of characters who seemed destined for the stage, The Girls of Murder City is a crackling tale that simultaneously presents the freewheeling spirit of the Jazz Age and its sober repercussions.

Book City of Scoundrels

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  • Author : Gary Krist
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2013-04-16
  • ISBN : 0307454304
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book City of Scoundrels written by Gary Krist and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse. When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World." But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city's highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them. It began on a balmy Monday afternoon when a blimp in flames crashed through the roof of a busy downtown bank, incinerating those inside. Within days, a racial incident at a crowded South Side beach spiraled into one of the worst urban riots in American history, followed by a transit strike that paralyzed the city. Then, when it seemed as if things could get no worse, police searching for a six-year-old girl discovered her body in a dark North Side basement. Meticulously researched and expertly paced, City of Scoundrels captures the tumultuous birth of the modern American city, with all of its light and dark aspects in vivid relief. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

Book Economics of Prohibition  The

Download or read book Economics of Prohibition The written by Mark Thornton and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2014 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the failure of Prohibition; discusses how this analysis can be applied to the effects of illegal drugs on today's economy.

Book Prohibition

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  • Author : W. J. Rorabaugh
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-02
  • ISBN : 0190689951
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Prohibition written by W. J. Rorabaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported, transported, or sold. This bizarre episode is often humorously recalled, frequently satirized, and usually condemned. The more interesting questions, however, are how and why Prohibition came about, how Prohibition worked (and failed to work), and how Prohibition gave way to strict governmental regulation of alcohol. This book answers these questions, presenting a brief and elegant overview of the Prohibition era and its legacy. During the 1920s alcohol prices rose, quality declined, and consumption dropped. The black market thrived, filling the pockets of mobsters and bootleggers. Since beer was too bulky to hide and largely disappeared, drinkers sipped cocktails made with moonshine or poor-grade imported liquor. The all-male saloon gave way to the speakeasy, where together men and women drank, smoked, and danced to jazz. After the onset of the Great Depression, support for Prohibition collapsed because of the rise in gangster violence and the need for revenue at local, state, and federal levels. As public opinion turned, Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to repeal Prohibition in 1932. The legalization of beer came in April 1933, followed by the Twenty-first Amendment's repeal of the Eighteenth that December. State alcohol control boards soon adopted strong regulations, and their legacies continue to influence American drinking habits. Soon after, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The alcohol problem had shifted from being a moral issue during the nineteenth century to a social, cultural, and political one during the campaign for Prohibition, and finally, to a therapeutic one involving individuals. As drinking returned to pre-Prohibition levels, a Neo-Prohibition emerged, led by groups such as Mothers against Drunk Driving, and ultimately resulted in a higher legal drinking age and other legislative measures. With his unparalleled expertise regarding American drinking patterns, W. J. Rorabaugh provides an accessible synthesis of one of the most important topics in US history, a topic that remains relevant today amidst rising concerns over binge-drinking and alcohol culture on college campuses.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1931 with total page 2832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: