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Karl barth has for so long been a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of religious thought that his visit to America had something of the spectacularity of an unprecedented approach of a heavenly body. But when he took his seat in the chancel of the Rockefeller Chapel at Chicago University, and peered curiously at the 2400 people gathered to hear him; when he grinned puckishly while the chairman asked no one to disturb him with flashbulbs, he betrayed a kind of oldshoe homeliness that promptly transferred him from the celestial realm to the company of one's country cousins.

In the late 1800's, an alliance was formed between First Ward political leaders in Chicago & gamblers & brothel owners. The underworld became organized, & eventually the infamous Capone gang was spawned. Headed successively by Big Jim Colosimo, Johnny Torrio, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, & Tony Accardo, the syndicate is still active in gambling & vice - always sources of underworld wealth. Capone gangsters have maintained a vital interest in the beer industry from Prohibition to the present time. They have corrupted labor unions & exerted influence over trade assoc's. They have invaded the field of finance, food business, automobile sales, & the coin-machine industry. Running through the diversified activities of the Capone org is a pattern of ruthless discipline imposed by violence. Of 15 gang killings in the Chicago area in 1961, 8 of the victims had connections with Capon-syndicate gambling establishments & 5 were dealing with loan sharks. A union president who opposed the misappropriation of union funds by a Capone hoodlum was ambushed & slain by 2 gunmen imported from Detroit. During the Roaring 20's, the gang leader was ostentatious & flashy. Today, though he has outward refinements, he has not basically changed. His methods of operation remain much the same as they were in yrs gone by. AAAPSS.

"Meeting . jointly sponsored by the Chicago council on foreign relations and the National policy committee."--p. 1. ; Bibliography: p. 29. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In the late 1800's, an alliance was formed between First Ward political leaders in Chicago and gamblers and brothel owners. The underworld became organized, and eventually the infamous Capone gang was spawned. Headed successively by Big Jim Colosimo, Johnny Torrio, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Tony Accardo, the syndicate is still active in gambling and vice—always sources of underworld wealth. Capone gangsters have maintained a vital interest in the beer industry from Prohibition to the present time. They have corrupted labor unions and exerted influence over trade associations. They have invaded the field of finance, food business, automobile sales, and the coin-machine industry. Running through the diversified activities of the Capone organization is a pattern of ruthless discipline imposed by violence. Of fifteen gang killings in the Chicago area in 1961, eight of the victims had connections with Capone-syndicate gambling establishments and five were dealing with loan sharks. A union president who opposed the misappropriation of union funds by a Capone hoodlum was ambushed and slain by two gunmen imported from Detroit. During the Roaring Twenties, the gang leader was ostentatious and flashy. Today, although he has outward refinements, he has not basically changed. His methods of operation remain much the same as they were in years gone by.