Word: gangdom
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Born in Chicago 35 years ago, son of a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother, Author Lundberg got his start as a police reporter in purple days of Chicago gangdom. That road led to United Press and finally to the New York Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme...
...SHOT FROM THE DOOR-Charles Barry-Button ($2). Scotland Yard's trials with blackmailing, murder and gangdom...
...Chrysler's cars have been specially honored by thieves because they have speed and a quick getaway-useful not only to the thief but to the thief's gangdom customers. One ''mob'' is reported to have standardized on Plymouths for the current year...
...Chicago gave the world the phrase "public enemy," gangsters used to ride around in Rolls-Royces. They carried rolls of bills big enough to choke a judge and got buried in $10,000 caskets, with effigies of themselves done in flowers to follow the hearse. Bootlegging, chief source of gangdom's income, was a national business of the first magnitude. Like other businesses, bootlegging has felt the pinch...
...broke faith with Capone and with the District Attorney and whether he failed to do as he agreed," Attorney Johnson was invited by Senator Borah to come to Washington. Most of the all-day session was taken up by Attorney Johnson with a history of Al Capone and Chicago gangdom. Toward the end of this testimony Senator Borah interrupted, "I want to get hold of your arrangement with Judge Wilkerson...