Word: gangland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles) next November. Mr. Cahill's tactics, under orders from Mr. Murphy, were to go after all relatives, friends and business acquaintances, past & present, of Lepke, the Leopard, to make the U. S. too hot to harbor him. Against the high-geared Federal machinery, Tom Dewey pitted gangland's greed. He offered protection and immunity to anyone who would come forward and collect his $25,000. Stories flew last week that: 1) Lepke was dead, murdered by pals who considered his fame undesirable publicity; 2) Lepke was bargaining between Messrs. Dewey & Cahill, offering to surrender...
Slot machines originated in penny arcades and ended up in gangland. Chicago's boisterous Mills Brothers made a $10,000,000 business of their Mills Novelty Co. partly by making slot machines which became the instruments of a $150,000,000 racket (TIME, May 13. 1935). Since U. S. Courts began to take the fun out of this form of gambling, U. S. manufacturers have been busy taking the gambling out of this form of fun. In the last three years they have made 5? bagatelle a national craze, filled the land with glass enclosed, pin-studded playing fields...
...four days hard-looking Film Director Wesley Ruggles, brother of Cinemactor Charles Ruggles, vainly searched Chicago for a "mug," concluded: "I prowled the stockyards . . . paced through Cicero where some of the gangland mugs used to live, but I couldn't find a single mug that looked like...
...murderer is obviously a sexual pervert, a fact that is brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer in order to save themselves. They succeed and give him a mock trial, but before they can kill him the police rush in and the picture ends on a weak note...
...chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist's plot to such an extent that it needs the entrance into the story of a complete gangland set-up to clear the way for the eventual triumph of young Freemont...