Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school of criminals that flourished in the prohibition era, Johnny Torrio was probably dean. From Brooklyn's Five Points Gang he went to Chicago as chief gunman for James ("Big Jim") Colosimo. As assistant in Chicago, Johnny Torrio selected a stocky Brooklyn boy named Al Capone. In 1920, Jim Colosimo was shot dead. Torrio succeeded him as Chicago's top racketeer and kept Al Capone as a $75-a-week underling. Johnny Torrio left Chicago shortly after Dion O'Banion's elaborate funeral in 1924, went back to be riddled with bullets by O'Banion...
George Wingfield bought a faro outfit, set himself up in the roaring mining town of Tonopah and began to rake in the shekels. Before long he was known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization...
...different from the competent juveniles of Dead End (see p. 61) as rat biscuits are from tea biscuits, the tots of Make A Wish are discovered in a paradisal boys' camp, where Chip (Bobby Breen), although a new boy, becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes...
Divorced, Novelist Oliver La Farge II, author of 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinner Laughing Boy; by Mrs. Wanden Mathews La Farge; in Reno. Charge: cruelty...
...decision. But Negro Joe Louis, 23, made $75,000 and successfully if not brilliantly defended the heavyweight championship of the world which he won two months ago by knocking out James J Braddock (TIME, July 5). And Thomas George Paul John Farr, 23, who grew up as a colliery boy in Wales, who once was a "booth fighter" earning five shillings a week boxing with yokels at country fairs, earned $50,000 in an evening...