Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gang...
Hearst's morning Examiner the same day had been just as certain that Bugsy was slain by two imported gunmen because he had paid too much attention to a New York gang leader's girl. By next day the Examiner had still another theory: the murder was ordered by the leaders of a national narcotic ring...
Bugsy was born 42 years ago in New York's dingy Lower East Side. He got his start as a night watchman for a gang of beer runners. Petulant as a small boy he went "bughouse" when crossed, but he was cunning, and he earned the respect of New York City's top crooks. When he hooked up with Meyer Lansky, New York ranked him as one of the "Big Six." He beat raps for rape, carrying concealed weapons, possessing narcotics, and murder. In 1933, Murder, Inc. was branching out. Bugsy, a member, set up western headquarters in Hollywood...
...heroin into California. In 1946 he opened the swanky $6,000,000 Flamingo Club in Las Vegas. He made the acquaintance of sultry, dark-haired Virginia Hill, 30, who was famed for parties that dazzled even Hollywood. The story was that thrice-married Virginia had a Brooklyn patron, a gang overlord who paid her handsomely to stay out of New York. Bugsy moved his shoes and suits over to Virginia's house...
...Gang...