Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much money does a successful counterfeiting gang make? The machinery is heavy and expensive. A fairly numerous staff of passers must be paid. Also the amount of patience, time and care required- which might otherwise be spent in making money honestly-is great. But counterfeiters have their triumphs, however brief. Last week the Treasury at Washington and officials of the German and Swiss police came to a rueful conclusion. They think that a counterfeiting gang as yet uncaught has successfully placed in Central Europe at least $100,000 worth of spurious U. S. banknotes. They fear that the success...
...German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they could never produce such perfect quantity results. They have turned out so much that they must have relations with some big paper mill, probably through bribery of employes. Their profits must be enormous. We think...
...meanwhile, five bombs explode in Chicago; the Windy City is bankrupt because of inefficient management and the high cost of protection of life and limb, and the gang wars continue their campaign of terrorization. Ten years of prohibition has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, the introduction of machine guns, armored cars and well-trained killers. Bullet-proof vests are still very much the vogue among all experienced racketeers. Every worthwhile gangster carries his revolver and the necessary accessories...
Here they find a motley gang. "Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial or removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under...