Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the committee found most shocking was "the extent of official corruption and connivance in facilitating and promoting organized crime." In every big city top mobsters remain "immune from prosecution and punishment." The committee found cops bribed, political leaders bought or pressured, sheriffs indifferent or even encouraging, well-meaning officials...
Gambling requires no fleets of trucks, cutting and bottling plants, secret garages, machine-gun battles with Coast Guard cutters or dumb cops on motorcycles. Gambling can be a pretty peaceful business and a man can keep the overhead down. Slot machines, punchboards, policy and numbers games, gambling casinos and bookmaking...
"The Enforcer" is the first really good cops-and-robbers picture to arrive in Boston for a long time. Marvin Racken's taut, original story of the apprehension of Killers, Inc.--a Kansas City murder syndicate--insures a better than average show from the start. But it is Director Bretaigne...
Protective Custody. In San Diego, Alphonso Lagos, arrested for public drunkenness, breathlessly told the cops: "Here comes my wife-let's get to that jail quick."
The Atlanta Constitution and Executive Editor Ralph McGill buckled down to work 13 years ago to drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Georgia. The Constitution repeatedly headlined hooded assault and fiery cross burnings, prodded lethargic cops into jailing several of the ringleaders, kept up a constant drumfire of ridicule...