Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday," the new caddy is told. "He's a swell...
...leader of the gang was Sam Vettori. Fat and cunning, Sam owned the spaghetti joint over which the gang met. Rico's cop-murder alarmed Sam. Conservative, Sam protested: "Love of God, didn't I tell you no gunwork?" Rico retaliated by reducing Sam's share of the spoils. Sam acknowledged defeat graciously. Reason: the gang's best guns were behind ruthless Rico. So Rico rose to leadership of the gang...
When Rico was feted by the gang, Joe failed to appear. Joe was the svelte "inside man" of the roadhouse job. Now he had acquired a woman, money, a professional dancing job. He wanted to forget Rico, go straight. Rico believed that to go straight was to go soft, maybe to squawk. He invited Joe to join a second holdup. By refusing, Joe knew he would sign his own death-sentence. By accepting, he strengthened a valuable connection...
Rico's stock now sold at a new high in Gangland. Not satisfied to remain leader merely of the Vettori gang, he began seizing rival territory. Everything was daisy? until one night a screaming woman recognized Joe on his dance floor as one of the principals in the roadhouse job. They arrested Joe. Without much third-degree, he turned State's evidence. Soon the "bulls" got Otero, Rico's faithful bodyguard, who stayed behind to shoot it out while Rico ran. And soon after that a detective got Rico in a corner. There was a long spurt of flame. Rico...
...asleep, and a fifth whom the alarms had not mentioned. The boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while Seattle George was laying plans for a bank robbery in Pierce...