Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's circulation from 300,000 to 4,958,000 in 24 years, also puts crime and sex stories in their place-generally on Page One. Last week The People's eager readers were being filled in on THE WORST MEN IN THE WORLD (the inmates of Alcatraz) and how HYENAS EAT 90 BABIES...
When he heard about it on the radio in Leavenworth, Lloyd scrawled in self-pity: "I have no more mother and brothers for them to murder." He was wrong: brother Doc got a bullet in the head four years later trying to crash out of Alcatraz...
Mellon passed the order on to Irey, who planted an agent in Al's Chicago headquarters. He laboriously compiled figures on Capone's tremendous take from his liquor operations, and from shaking down brothels and gambling joints. Al wound up in Alcatraz not because he was a thief, a murderer and a booze runner, but because Irey was able to prove to a jury that he hadn't shared his swag with the U.S. Treasury. One of Al's boys gave Irey's planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything...
...Albert ("Blabbermouth") Bates, 57, serving a life sentence for the 1933 kidnaping of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, died in Alcatraz prison without ever blabbing where he had hidden his $100,000 in ransom money...
...name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe the technique of a brilliantly smart operator...