Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending on the number of convictions obtained) are set on his head. The underworld "grapevine" reported that potent underworldlings would pay double that amount...
...Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken, reticent, diligently eludes publicity. But Mrs. Willebrandt, busily though she snooped, got nothing done about cattle-herding in the Federal prisons...
...morning, when we took turns at sleep for an hour or so up to breakfast time. ... In my first three terms in the assembly I knew nothing about lobbying, or anything els? that was going on, for that matter. . . . The newspapers often referred to Al Smith's Gang during my years in the legislature. That meant all my children, my wife, some of my sister's children, and, on some occasions, my mother...
...catch with the big leagues. It is too early to predict the outcome of the contest, but the constant mention of money adds a taint of professionalism to the proceedings which cannot fall to arouse regret in the ranks of the amateur garden clubs involved. So far the hothouse gang seems to have the edge but the experts are talking knowingly about the dark horse pitcher held in reserve by the big league...
...exulted over a complete dry-up of the district. Later came surprises and disappointments. Surprises: capture of Emanuel ("Mannie") Kessler, "King of Bootleggers" and his partner Morris Sweetwood, both onetime Atlanta timeservers; both thought to have reformed; discovery among syndicate papers of a check signed by Chicago's gang king, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, now imprisoned at Philadelphia. Disappointments: release of Kessler and Sweetwood for lack of evidence; failure to entice liquor transports into the trap baited by faked radio calls; failure to capture the three managing directors...