Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson carried his district) and 1918. In 1920 he lost his House seat by making an unsuccessful attempt to win the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. Because as a Congressman he had served on the committee investigating War contracts and expenditures, Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General and Ohio gang leader, made him a special assistant to prosecute War frauds. He helped the U. S. win back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post...
...Last week the Washington Court House, Ohio, sheriff arrested Mr. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty and held him for $40,000 bail, in connection with the failure early this year of two local banks, one of them the supposed repository of some of the Ohio Gang's graft...
...Illinois Central pedestrian subway. There they joined a blond man whose name I never knew. These three killed Jake Lingle. I think the blond man fired the shot. They were acting for Christ Patras, a north-side restaurant man, who represented Jack Zuta, business manager for the Aiello-Moran gang. When my employers went to collect the $10,000 promised them by Patras, he balked, was killed. Zuta was killed two months afterward." Not in those exact words but to that effect, Prisoner Frank Bell last week spoke rapidly to a Chicago coroner's jury, made Chicago...
...more absurd the mistakes of Mr. O'Connell-who is made a production manager-become, the more remarkable his feats appear to the cinema people. At the final curtain, when Cinemagnate Glogauer learns that by some addle-pated order of Mr. O'Connell's a gang of workmen have come to tear the studio down, he hesitates for just a moment and then cries, "Tell them to go ahead...
Alkali was a boom town, law & order had not yet descended on it. The sheriff was in cahoots with the unruly cowmen, and the decent shopkeeping and professional element of the town looked to the Johnson gang to keep order. Wayt Johnson, head of the clan, had a reputation for action, but he was trying hard to be law-abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint...