Word: gangdom
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...World is used to shocks, but it will sit up and gasp at this. The crime illustrates that gangdom in the United States is now virtually in control."--London Daily Mirror...
...boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed as the result of being hit over the head with a piece of pipe by a fellow inmate at the Atlanta federal penitentiary...
...Apalachin meeting has become a milestone in the history of organized gangdom. It is also a major mystery. The most authentic explanation so far is that the hoods were sitting as judges and jurors in the trial of one of their own, Carmine Lombardozzi, who had apparently tried to muscle in on some of his peers' rackets. But nearly all the barbecuers, called one by one before county and state grand juries, before congressional committees and Government agencies, kept silence. On that silence Project Green was based...
...Singapore (pop. 1,500,000), with a degree of organization that makes Manhattan's West Side gangdom seem puny and primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers...
Little Caesar. Giving orders in New York gangdom was one unwieldy bird named Antonio Corallo, known to cronies and cops as Tony Ducks-a title bestowed in praise of his ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony Ducks keeps no bank accounts, buys no property in his own name, often meets his confederates at 5 a.m. (to avoid detection), assigns one of his boys to tail any detective found to be tailing Tony Ducks. One employer, said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into...