Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melodramatic year 1933, spindly Alvin Karpis joined forces in St. Paul with Kate ("Ma") Barker and her sons Fred and Arthur. In little more than a year the Karpis-Barker gang became the nation's most formidable criminal outfit, made nearly $500,000 by robbing banks, kidnapping such folk as St. Paul's Brewer William Hamm and Banker Edward George Bremer. Then police and G-Men began weeding the gang out. "Ma" and Fred Barker and another mobster died un der Federal guns. Six other Barker-Karpis hoodlums and accomplices were put behind bars, seven more were under...
...nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported from Brooklyn a broad...
...Nobls ChadwickGlorious Apollo (Glee) WebbeChoruses from Patience SullivanFor Tuesday, May 18Now let Every Tongue Adore Thee BachThree Songs from Sea Shanty Suite MePheeHigland Laddie Soleist-David P. MacAllester '38 StormalongSoloist--Arthur K. Dacy '37What Shall We De With a Drunken Sailor?Soleist--John L. Bishop '37Choruses from Patience SullivanDer Gang Zum Liebehen BrachmsO Du Eselhafter Mactia (Canon) MozartThen Round About the Starry Throne Hande
From the "Marchioness," exonerated by the police, and a jailed bond "fence" named David Frank, police got the lead which subsequently revealed that the gang maintained headquarters in Monte Carlo, entertained prospective customers with yachting trips along the Côte d'Azur, houseparties at their French chateaux. Last week the French Surété Generale, on the obliging advice of Prince Louis II of Monaco, who seemed curiously well acquainted with the gang, pounced on one Hungarian and one Czechoslovakian with $440,000 of the Devine securities, when some of them were being offered for sale...
Died. Rt. Rev. Monsignor Timothy ("Father Tim") Dempsey, 68, organizer & operator of six St. Louis poor asylums, mediator of many a gang and labor dispute, best-loved Catholic priest in a big Catholic town; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...