MARTIN IS CLEARED BY SENATE, 28 TO 19, IN REMOVAL VOTE (11/17/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 11/17/39 | Warren Moscow, Percival Knauth

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[colorado tanker]

I have been checking out some of the older threads from before I joined up and have resisted necromancing any of them, but there is a very interesting bit of trivia about today's issue.

Edward J. "Easy Eddie" O'Hare was the father of Butch O'Hare, the WWII Navy aviator and receipient of the Medal of Honor. O'Hare airport was renamed for him.

His father, Eddie, divorced Butch's mother and moved from St. Louis to Chicago, where he fell in with Al Capone's gang. He also became "engaged" to the sister of a mobbed-up Illinois official (they never married because Catholic Eddie couldn't get an annulment).

Eddie had a change of heart and became a secret informant for the IRS and put them on to the bookkeeper who broke the Capone case open. He also tipped the feds that Capone had rigged the jury, which led to the last-minute switch.

Eddie was murdered after Capone got out of jail. Everyone knew Capone's gang did it, but nobody was ever arrested. Eddie's "fiance" later married Frank Nitti, Capone's successor.

[henkster]

Well there’s a blast from the past. The Capone gang, while ruthless murderers, seem to have been a better breed of criminal than what we have today.