Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sewer gang foreman, James Petrillo, who likes to be called "The Mussolini of Music," was born in 1892 on Chicago's slummy West Side. He spent a precarious childhood selling newspapers, running elevators up & down Loop buildings, driving a horse & cart, peddling crackerjack and peanuts on a North West ern Railroad train. Young Petrillo played the trumpet, but so badly that the only jobs he could get were at picnics. On this account he went into politics. He served three years as vice president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians before he became its president in 1922. Highest-priced...
...paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well in hand that last week State Superintendent of Insurance Louis Pink recommended a 7% reduction in liability rates. Simultaneously in Chicago was uncovered the most vicious...
Wild Bill takes a new trail, following one Lattimer (Charles Bickford) the sinister agent of some grafting Cabinet members who hope to sell the Cheyennes repeating rifles left over from the Civil War. Best sequence in the picture comes when Wild Bill has killed Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally...
...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...
...they come along and cover up the steel with a lot of crap." The role of Andy is capably played by William Haade, 33, who before his appearance in Iron Men never set foot on a stage in his life. Mr. Kaade is a crack steelworker. Boss of his gang, he put up steel on Manhattan's Barbizon-Plaza and Pierre Hotels, Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., and Bank of Manhattan buildings. River side Church, Lincoln Hospital. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Local No. 40. He and his German...