Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed the starved souls of Back Bay mocha-moochers, Jimmy drags a hopped-up moll across the room by her hair...
...addition, the ring sold narcotics, provided monied prisoners with clothing filched from newcomers, even had a strong voice in the granting of paroles. Divided between an Irish and an Italian gang, the hierarchy lived soft in two hospital wards, while men who should have been hospitalized-100 drug addicts, more than 100 venereal cases, 13 insane patients and one man suffering with sleeping sickness-roamed at large through the prison spreading demoralization and infection...
...Fireman John Freeman was given a $50 tip for lugging out heavy suitcases for several "wealthy Easterners." Next afternoon, thumbing through a detective magazine in the firehouse, he stared at likenesses of two of the generous strangers. Minutes later Tucson police started a manhunt for John Dillinger and his gang who week before had looted the First National Bank of East Chicago (TIME...
...handcuff him, was subdued. In a radio store they picked up Charles Makley (jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...
...scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...