CRIME: Big Warm Blanket

A Jewish lawyer in New York, a notorious criminal in Atlanta Penitentiary, a college professor in Reading, Pa., a fugitive from Federal justice, an alderman vacationing in Europe and 19 other assorted Chicagoans all had common cause for worry last week. It was a big warm blanket indictment by a Cook County grand jury charging them one & all with being trade racketeers. Behind the indictment lay Chicago's years of industrial bombings, murders and terrorism, and twelve weeks of secret investigation by the grand jury before whom appeared 588 frightened witnesses....

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