Charles E. Lounsbury

              The Death of a Thousand Rackets
Crime—What Are We Going to Do About It?
Partners: Crime and Politics

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Charles E. Lounsbury
Noted Chicago Attorney and Prosecutor—A Powerful and Dynamic Speaker—Authoritative, Instructive, Thrilling, Fearless

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CHARLES E. LOUNSBURY
Noted Chicago Attorney, Speaker, and Prosecutor, Who Has Fought and Cleaned Up a Thousand Rackets
Charles E. Lounsbury spent twenty years in the successful prosecution of crime as an Assistant and as State's Attorney.

It will be remembered that Lounsbury was made First Assistant to the Honorable Frank J. Loesch, when that grand old prosecutor (now a member of the National Crime Commission) was Special Attorney General of Illinois to clean up rotten election conditions after the famous bloody primary.

As First Assistant to John A. Swanson, when he was State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, he established the first Bureau in the world devoted exclusively to a war on Rackets.  Lounsbury has fought and cleaned up a thousand rackets.

The origin of rackets and racketeers; the modification of original rackets and their gradual development to tremendous proportions; the actual effect of prohibition on crime and rackets; the entry of rackets into the field of organized labor; how the racketeer and the gangster levy tribute, directly or indirectly, from business; the alliance between crime and politics and its alarming influence; the gangster and his brain trust; the development of kidnaping as a fine art and the battle to exterminate it—are some of the things that Mr. Lounsbury discusses in his talks dealing with crime and rackets.  His is a fearless and startling expose of the real workings of the underworld and rackets by one who knows, giving names, dates and places.  His remedies are practical and he speaks straight from the shoulder.

Mr. Lounsbury is known as one of the foremost trial lawyers of the Middle West.  Recently, he won national fame as one of the leading defense attorneys in the widely publicized Insull prosecution.  He is a powerful and dynamic speaker.



LECTURE SUBJECTS:

The Death of a Thousand Rackets
Partners: Crime and Politics
Crime: What Are We Going to Do About It?



ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE FOR CHARLES LOUNSBURY

The Cleveland News—Editorial—Insurance Against Crime.
Charles Lounsbury, prosecutor of rackets in Chicago, bore a message of timely interest to Cleveland in a speech before the Rotary Club this week.  Slum clearance and rebuilding of congested areas with houses fit to live in always will be factors in promoting better citizenship, he said.  Slums are breeding places of crime.  Mental disease flourishes in them.  Home life, which plays an important part in character building, must be sound if it is to fulfill its true functions.

South Bend Knife-and-Fork Club, L. E. Greenan, Secretary.

Mr. Lounsbury certainly did tell all our members about the Rackets.  He is a forceful speaker and he put his message over with a bang.


The South Bend Tribune.
Racketeering, a malignant growth on the body politic of America, was held to public view Tuesday night in an address by the one man in American best qualified to discuss it—Charles E. Lounsbury.

Northern State Teachers College, Marquette, Mich., Webster H. Pearce, Pres.

The student body ranked him as the year's outsanding lecturer.  His excellent command of diction along with many illustrations during the lecture held the attention of the audience throughout his entire talk.

Pontiac, Mich., Forum, George H. Kimball, Jr.

Very good.  There was very general approval.  What objection there was to his point of view in regard to capital punishment, seemed to be very nicely handled during the question period.  Some said: This was the best of all.

The State Agricultural College, Ft. Collins, Colo., James A. McCain.

I solicited by direct and round-about methods the reaction of our students to the speaker.  Every opinion which reached me was favorable, and a number of students added that they would have been glad to listen to him for another hour.  Mr. Lounsbury's presentation of America's crime problem is vivid, entertaining and convincing.  I find that of available speakers, there are far too many talking about problems completely foreign to the U. S.  It is refreshing to hear such a splendid presentation of a local situation as that given in Mr. Lounsbury's talk.

The Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, Cal., Louise Ward Watkins, President.

We were very well pleased with the manner and delivery of Charles E. Lounsbury—manly, virile, presenting his subject very clearly.  From the viewpoint of a platform speaker, Mr. Lounsbury is excellent.

Wooster College, Wooster, O., W. R. Westhafer.

Mr. Lounsbury spoke very acceptably to our students.  He presented interesting facts with unusual effectiveness.  The general impression was very favorable.

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