Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even the George ("Bugs") Moran booze-peddling depot on North Clark Street, masked as a garage of the S. M. C. Cartage Co., where lolled six underworldlings, waiting for their breakfast coffee to cook. A seventh, in overalls, tinkered with a beer vat on a truck. Two of the gang drifted aimlessly into the front office where ink wells stood dusty...
...justice. Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept. 17). And a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Detroit's "Purple Gang" to Capone was hijacked last fortnight, presumably by Moran...
...Ladies whom he began marrying young, when he was a gang coolie, include Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians and Mongolians. Win or lose, that's a brave Chinese...
...until the second or third day of such royal slumming that Edward of Wales fully and deeply sensed the misery around him. He reacted by demanding to see the books and pay sheets of several employers, and appeared scandalized when one such sheet showed that a gang of four men, working five shifts, received at the end of the week only 29 shillings...
Patrons of the University Theatre were probably not on hand last night to see Feagan and his pals "bump off" their victim. They know that "Flash" the famous movie canine, got "Feagan's gang" on the University screen all during the first part of the week, and that the desperadoes of "The Dreamland Cafe Below the Deadline" in the picture "Shadows of the Underworld" could not possibly injure the genial traffic officer...