Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Mal Daugherty could have had anything he wanted in Washington. The Ohio Gang was in the saddle. Brother Harry, its leader, ruled the White House from the Department of Justice. The Daugherty family rode high...
...Senate lashed the Attorney General out of office while its investigators were following the trail of his gang's graft to the doors of Brother Mal's Ohio bank. Asked for his ledgers to trace the deposits inside, Brother Mal said he had burned them up. Long afterward the Supreme Court of the U. S. in a famed decision said his behavior was wrong and ordered him to tell the Senate all he knew about the Ohio Gang's fiscal affairs. But the Senate had ceased to care, never asked any more questions, let Brother Mal continue...
...Manhattan to his farm at McLean, Va. in deep disgruntlement at the Press and Powers of Chicago. He had made good on his promise to enter the territory of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone "without gun permit or bodyguard" (TIME, March 2). Sent by a Manhattan organization called the Anti-Gang Rule League he had addressed a Chicago body called the Universal Fellowship Foundation, which sings songs between its dinner courses, including a non-flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational speech, Cartoonist Crosby-short, stocky, jut-jawed-had cried: "Capone . . . has one man right here...
...other hand The Gang Buster with Jack Oakie comes right out and calls itself a comedy. Oakie as a breezy, superstitious insurance agent feels it incumbent upon himself to rescue the daughter of a lawyer from the clutches of some gentlemen who out-Capone Capone. Gats, black-jacks, and, machine guns to the contrary the task is accomplished with the usual Oakiean touches. Those who like the young man in question, and rumor hath it that there be such, will enjoy the picture...
...SPOT?Edgar Wallace demonstrating at least one new wrinkle to Chicago's gang executions...