Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midtown Chicago 'legger of the Capone era - muscled on one hand by the North Side mob and on the other by the South Siders - was ever in a tighter spot than blue-jowled Benito Mussolini found himself in last week...
...reasons for this symphonic era are not far to seek. They lie, quite naturally, in the character of modern civilization, and its mechanized, accelerated tempo. Symphonic music means variety, and change of pace; volume, and diversity of tone color; filled with a potent appeal for the man who wakes up to the sooth sweetness of electric drills, and ends the day with one ear glued to a radio that blares. Even the programs of symphonic concerts, in their limitations, echo this love for the loud and violent. They are filled with music of an aggressive character, with strong rhythms...
Died. William Faversham, 72, Gibson Girl-era matinee idol; of coronary thrombosis; in Bay Shore, N. Y. Romeo to Maude Adams' Juliet, best remembered as The Squaw Man, thrice-married Faversham made and lost several fortunes, declared himself bankrupt in 1935, and in 1937 entered the Percy Williams Home for destitute actors...
...richer that mobs got from bootlegging and allied rackets, the more help they could deliver in elections, the more beholden the bosses became. Thompson & Raymond draw a pretty picture of the principal gangs and gang leaders during that era, of their boyish purchases in haberdashery and chorus girls, their nights into the nightclub business and into sports ("Big Bill" Dwyer introduced professional hockey to Manhattan), their celebrated lawyers such as "The Great Mouthpiece" Fallon. They name certain such semi-criminal fixers who are still in the law business...
...underworld's Gaudy Era, when that wealthy foursome, Lucky Luciano (prostitutes), Joe Adonis (bootlegging), Meyer Lansky (industrial rackets) and Jimmy Hines (politics), played golf at swank Hot Springs, Ark., ended around 1935. Dead was Gangster Vannie Higgins, who had owned and piloted his own airplane. Bootlegger Frankie Yale (Uale), bumped off, had been given a $50,000 funeral. Gunman Legs Diamond had at last been rubbed out, and his flowerlike Kiki Roberts, who had danced in Ziegfeld's Follies, had gone back to dancing in a roadhouse for a living. In 1935 organized crime appeared to have...