Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Share the Loot. It was principally Irey and his men who broke up Huey Long's gang, gave young District Attorney Tom Dewey the evidence with which to convict Beer Baron Waxie Gordon, jailed Johnny Torrio (who proposed a deal: "Leave us cut out the shooting, boys, there's enough here for everybody"), broke the Lindbergh case and busted up the Pendergast machine...
...Manhattan's Daily News got a case of the dry grins over two eels which had stoppered Bronx water pipes and an owl which flew into the 67th floor of the RCA building. "If the whole metropolitan animal kingdom-cats, dogs, horses, pigeons, even cockroaches-has decided to gang up on us city dwellers," said the News, "they could probably drive us all nuts in no time...
...story is about what you would expect in a second-rate comic opera. A proper Bostonian (Sinatra) arrives in Spanish-owned California to take over an inn and a gang of bandits inherited from his father. The rootin'-tootin' father had been bored with innkeeping, but he was a great hand at banditry and kissing the women he robbed. The son is a shaky beanpole who falls off his horse at the drop of a hoof. He is afraid of guns and women, but anxious to see that the inn has plenty of clean sheets and towels...
...battle on the Champs Elysees reached its worst phase just before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...
...Radio) stars Dick Powell as an undercover Army officer. The setting is the Far West, perhaps 70 years ago. Jane Greer is a girl named Charlie who runs the saloon, the mining town itself, and practically everything in the neighborhood. Lieut. Powell suspects that she also runs the bandit gang which has murdered two soldiers who were guarding a gold shipment. In the course of hounding down the culprits for the Government, Dick gets beaten up and held up. In quieter moments, he listens to Burl lves sing, and passes the time of day with Charlie...