Word: gangland
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Join-or Else. Gangland murders increased, rival racketeers died untidily, and Charlie prospered. Binaggio decided he was big enough to take on Tom Pendergast's nephew Jim, the titular Democratic boss of Kansas City. In the 1948 primary, Binaggio's candidates beat Pendergast's for every county office...
...strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including Kent Smith, an honest but weak accountant, and David Brian, a pseudo-respectable gangland big shot with a taste for Etruscan vases...
...Telegraph revealing Kaiser Wilhelm's war plans in another exclusive, this time an interview (1908). these are the headline stories of their times, and they cannot but thrill the reader still, for with the dust blown off them they jump from yellowed pages like the four-alarm fires and gangland killings of today...
...recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous Atlantic City peace conference of 1929, Frank Costello took a leading part in calling for cartels in the 'rackets instead of armed competition-a role which gained him the title of "The Prime Minister of the Underworld...
...breakup between . . . [Siegel] and Virginia Hill, beauteous mystery-veiled heiress, and the disclosure of a 'No. 1 boy friend' in her romantic life led police to the theory that a 'love triangle' rather than an underworld 'double-cross' may have touched off the gangland czar's rubout...