Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Nye said: "This is emphatic evidence that you can't convict a million dollars in the U. S. under the order that now prevails. The Supreme Court has got the number of this whole gang, and in the minds of the American people, Sinclair stands convicted...
...Charles Birger, lean gang chieftain of Williamson county, in which lies bloody Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
...Gang Angle. Bootleg gangsters hold Senator Deneen responsible for a recent attempt at Prohibition enforcement, in which raids were staged on eleven cabarets that considered themselves immune from such treatment. That may have inspired the bombing as well as the assassination of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, gangster, Deneen henchman of the 25th ward, flashy hero of Chicago's Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond...
...Later in the week, Chief of Police Hughes sent out 525 policemen in automobiles with orders to arrest not bombers, but U. S. Prohibition agents. Said he: "Bring in the whole gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...
...same old sorrows and self pity are fast taking new expression in "sweet Blues comin' from a black man's soul-achin' hearted Blues, all alone Blues, baby-won't-you-please-come-home Blues, chain-gang Blues, mo' Blues than angels in Heaven can sing...