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Spectator John T. Clyne's Six Months Diary 1928 1929
The excerpted diary records a year of Chicago crime, politics, and society from January to July, noting Hoover Coolidge and Al Smith appearances, moon Mullins, Moon Mullins, gangland violence, bank consolidations, and a Wisconsin vacation with Theodore R. Gerlach before a July bank transfer to Joliet.
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Chicago
Windy City
Andy Gump
Moon Mullins
Moon
Andy
United States
Tex Rickard
Miami
Florida
Chicago Heights
Tom Carr
Uncle Walt
Hoover
Washington
al Smith
Boss Tweed
New York
New York City
New York State
Warbucks
Walt and
Avery
Winnie Winkle
Roy Leighton
Jim Reid
Borah
Congress
al Capone
James O’donnell Bennett
Mary Gold
Mr. Ausstini
Offi
Charley Curtis
Dolly Gann
Kansas
Aurora
Illinois
Lemont
Mrs
Nosey
Walt
Phyllis
Calvin Coolidge
Connecticut
Brooks
Orphan Annie
Andy Mellon
Germany
Emma Schmaltz
St. Louis
Princess Alice
Nicholas
Indiana
Sicily
Theodore R. Gerlach
Stone Lake
Wisconsin
Lindbergh
Yump
Anne Morrow
Commercial Trust and Bank
First National Bank of
Senator Brookhart
Iowa
Colonel Wicker
Old Fox
President Hoover
Aimee McPherson
Detroit
England
Chamberlin
Royal Household