On verso: "Avery Leaves Courtroom; Board Chairman Sewell L. Avery (left) leaves the U.S. District courtroom in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 8, after a hearing on a government petition for an injunction to restrain Montgomery Ward & Co. officials from interfering with Army operation of seized properties. Following Avery from the courtroom is Vice President and Treasurer Harold L. Pearson (right)."]]>
On verso: "Frank Nitti, Al Capone's "treasurer" and considered a power in the Capone faction, was seized in Chicago by federal agents and operatives from the state's attorney's office on charges of defrauding the United States of income tax payments and penalties. Nitti has been sought by the government since last March. Photo shows, left to right: Pat Rooche, chief investigator for the state's attorney; Capt. J. D. Greer; Frank Nitti; and Sergts. Julius Siegan and David Lavin."]]>
On verso: "March 30 1927 A.M.; When the United States Steel Corporation's newest and finest 600-foot steel freighter slips from the ways at Toledo this summer it will be christened the B. F. Affleck, in honor of a man who only a few short years ago was a machinist's apprentice in a small shop at Belleville, Ill. Mr. Affleck today is president of the Universal Portland Cement Co. While working in the machine shop he studied shorthand, got a job as a stenographer with the American Express Company, at St. Louis, and progressed thru the railroad and steel business into the cement industry. In spite of the fact that his school attendance ended in the eight grade and at the age of thirteen, he is today one of the outstanding figures in American industry."]]>
On verso: "Waukegan, Ill., June 9--thirty-nine CIO unionists were jailed and fined on contempt of court charges in connection with the Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation sitdown evacuation order of last winter. Meyer Adelman, 350-pound CIO organizer, is shown in the center speaking at the inquiry at which he drew the heaviest penalty, 240 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. With him are attorneys Lester Collins, left, and Paul P. Glaser.]]>
On verso: Waukegan, Ill., Mar. 9--Sit-Down Strikers Pay---Meyer Adelman and Oakley Mills, officials of steel workers organizing a committee, C.I.O., played cards as they started serving 240 and 180 day jail sentences, respectively, here today for ignoring an injunction forbidding a sit-down strike against the Fansteel Corp., in 1937. Eleven others also started their jail sentences on similar convictions."]]>
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On verso: "Shares Noble Peace Award for 1931: Chicago, Ill. Jane Adams, founder of Hull House, Chicago, will share the Noble Prize Peace Award for 1931 with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, New York. Announcement of the award, worth roughly about $40,000, was made at Oslo, Sweden, today at a meeting of the Noble Institute. The Noble Committee declared that these two individuals had done more than any others to advance the cause of World peace. It is interesting to know that the U.S. has received this award more than any other country; Photo shows a recent picture of Miss Addams at her desk in the Hull House."]]>
On verso: "Hull House Head Lectures on 'Arts and Crafts'. Miss. Jane Addams, head of Hull House since it was founded more than forty years ago was the principal speaker today at the first series of lectures in connection with opening of the Hull House Shop in the Michigan Square Bldg. The subject of her talk was 'Arts and craft at Hull House for forty years' and included in exhibition of native crafts from the Mexicans in the Hull House neighborhood; 5-Miss Jane Addams looking over a few of the paintings that were on exhibition during her lecture."]]>
On verso: "Mayor Names 'Iron Man' To Head Police. Captain James P. Allman, 'Iron Man' of Chicago's Police Department, today was named Commissioner of Police by Mayor Cermak to succeed John Alcock, acting Commissioner. The mayor gave the new chief a few pioneers on what has to be done to put Chicago in shape for the coming Century of Progress; I-'War on Crime' Commissioner Allman, gets instructions from Mayor Cermak, to clean up gangland."]]>
On verso: "Frank (Enforcer) Nitti On The Spot . . . Chicago, Ill . . . All efforts to have Mr. Nitti pose for his picture in the criminal court were to no avail. Mr. Nitti's friend wanted to shield him from all photographers, but he wasn't as fast as our speed gun. Mr. Nitti's defense were able to put a policeman under a $2000.00 bond for perjury. The case was postponed."]]>