Word: banqueteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terranova had signed a contract agreeing to pay $20,000 for the two killings. He had delivered $5,000, but because he had withheld the rest, the killer had threatened to turn the contract over to the police. Whereupon Terranova had arranged to meet the killer at the Bronx-banquet for a settlement, had obtained the contract by means of the fake robbery...
Early in December a pretentious restaurant called the Roman Gardens in the borough of The Bronx, New York City, was the scene of a bounteous banquet. Guest of honor was handsome, thickset City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, who had just returned from a vacation. With this vigorous representative of the Law there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess...
Police Detective Johnson was demoted to Patrolman and scheduled to be tried for conduct unbecoming an officer. It was at this trial, which began last week in New York under the personal supervision of dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, that the Bronx banquet began to seem an astonishing affair...
...banquet tendered President Fortes Gil in Puebla City last August upon the conclusion of the last revolution, the Chief Executive, who has high plans for making Mexico temperate, scanned the liberal wine list, then suggested to General Almada that they both swear off tobacco and liquor, that the first to fumar (smoke) should pay the winner 100 silver pesos ($50), the first to beber (drink) should pay 200 silver pesos ($100). General Almada manfully agreed...