Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...
...were two characters who did not fit into the regular membership. One was a nervous, profane, broom-thatched wild man from the West named Harold Ross. Born in Aspen, Colo., he had been a waterfront reporter in San Francisco, a picture-snatching newshawk in Atlanta, boss of a Negro gang in Panama and, most important, editor of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. The other was a suave, good-humored millionaire named Raoul Fleischmann, who at that time was in the bakery business. (His uncle made the yeast...
...himself the unwilling accessory at a murder. He lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon he was ''the brain guy" for a small gang of robbers. But Bill was no thoughtless criminal and his conscience and his fears died hard. As he got deeper into the meshes of a career in which life and success went ever more narrowly together, his increasing desperation gave him a boldness his brain told him would...
...many boy-&-girl hoboes are wandering the U. S. today Author Minehan does not attempt to estimate. The overwhelming majority of the 500-odd cases he collected left home because of hard times. They travel in small gangs, repeat the same routes, rarely get more than 500 miles from their starting place. The girls are sometimes on their own, oftener are common to the gang or temporarily faithful to one boy. For their living they depend on panhandling, petty thievery, breadlines...
...Warner Brothers salesmen in Atlantic City last fortnight. Major Albert Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores Del Rio in Farewell to Shanghai; journalistic investigations of bicycle racing. Boulder Dam, roadhouses. traveling salesladies; five musical pictures...