Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pink-cheeked little Gillis had been in & out of reform school and prison as a smalltime automobile thief, hold-up man. bank robber. But he did not become a headline lawbreaker until last year when, under the name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred of police. After he had killed Federal Agent W. Carter Baum during an ambush at the Little Bohemia roadhouse at Spider Lake, Wis. the Department of Justice marked him down for certain...
...Herndon case, which is less well known, is that of a 19 year old negro sentenced two years ago to 20 years in the chain gang for inciting to insurrection under an obsolete statute of the post-Civil War era. His crime was the possession of radical literature. Herndon is now at liberty on $15,000 ball raised by the International Labor Defense while his case is also being appealed before the Supreme Court...
...gallant career in all quarters of the globe with the Marines, General Butler was ''borrowed" by Philadelphia in 1924 to clean up that city's bootlegging. The hot-headed general resigned the following year, declaring that he had been made the respectable "front" for a gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif, following a party at the colonel's home. Four years later General Butler himself was almost court-martialed for telling a Philadelphia audience that Benito Mussolini...
...conservative who turned liberal in the rarefied air of the Supreme Court. New Hampshire-born and Amherst-educated, he was a great teacher of law at Columbia until Calvin Coolidge called him to Washington to be Attorney General and clean up the Department of Justice after the Ohio Gang. In 1925 he was advanced to the Supreme Court where "Holmes, Brandeis & Stone dissenting" from conservative majority opinion became a familiar news...
...present acts of abuse at rodeos will later pall, and more (there are lots of them) vicious displays will have to be introduced. Even after the laudable failure of a gang of American rodeoists in England last summer, the nation was so incensed that legislation was promptly enacted to prevent further invasions of shows that depended on cruelty and abuse...