Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name "Letty," Miss Greenwood's favorite alias. It begins with farce, but before the first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists of an unemployed minister, a woman who pretends to bear the baby several days before it is kidnaped, the doctor who attends at the bogus birth, and a nurse...
...States anyone discovered tapping telephone wires is liable to a fine, jail, or both. But since 1928, when a 5-to-4 U. S. Supreme Court decision upheld the validity of evidence procured against a Puget Sound bootlegging gang by wiretapping Prohibition agents, the Federal Government has become one of the most efficient wiretappers in the U. S. Last week another Supreme Court decision, this time 7-to-2, gave Federal eavesdroppers a sharp box on the ears...
Continued the President: "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... I will tell you frankly that, if an overwhelming majority of our electors go to the polls, many Fascist gang leaders will stop and think: 'Look -not only is their army strong, but even greater power stands behind the army...
Because for a brief period during the war he served in the United States Navy, the Legion furnished a guard of honor to one of the men responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their...
...very well to say that such matters come under the jurisdiction of the Cambridge police, but no one can study the problem without seeing the futility of police action. It is not always easy for a middle-aged constable to round up a gang of fourteen-year-olds, and there is absolutely nothing that he can do with them once he has rounded them up. If the Cambridge police can keep adult criminals under control, they are doing all that is asked of them. The children represent a sociological problem that belongs to the municipality, the churches, and Harvard University...