Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago at the Rising Sun Brewery in Elizabeth. Ja, he had tended boiler there, too. He saw it all. The Prohibition man, he had ten bullets in him when they rolled him over and straightened him out?ten. He heard that some of the men in the gang were dead now, too. A fellow named Weissman out in Kansas City. Another in Philadelphia. Another in Atlantic City. So now some men come to the ice' plant last Tuesday looking for him, Gobel. He was the State's star witness to the first murder. So Policeman Weigand had been sent...
...city detective in a police car with a Georgia license, acting on stoolpigeon information, followed a car with three men in it to the middle of Williamsburg bridge. Suddenly the pursued car stopped. The men jumped out, began throwing things over the railing into the river. When the gang was subdued, four gold bars with the Brooklyn firm's mark on them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were tossing their loot away because...
Captain Courson (telling of his reluctance to discipline Maillefert even after he had refused to work with the road gang)" Jersey said, 'Captain, I done served my sentence. I don't intend to hit another damned lick.' I told him, 'No sir, your time is not made. You were sentenced here for nine years and my job is to see you do it.' Jersey said, 'I've served my time. If you don't kill me you're yellow.' I told him I must be yellow then because...
...blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...stable of plug-uglies and wrestlers into a terrifying football team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently no one much is left except the appalled press agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre...