Word: gangland
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...front pages of Chicago's newspapers almost ignored the war. They had more exciting news. Headlines blazoned accounts of kidnapping and murder. Accompanying stories hinted at the rise of a new gangland mob: the "wise boys" said that the "Syndicate," or the "Outfit"-presumably the remnants of the old Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name...
Bloody Year. Chicagoans had been aware for some time that gangland was stirring. The Crime Commission's list of unsolved homicides had grown portentous...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy knew all the rackets: liquor, bank stickups, kidnapping. So did his pal, Basil ("The Owl") Banghart, whose skill with a machine gun was a Chicago gangland legend. Both were tough and smart as horsewhips, and proud of being redhots. When a prison official asked Banghart his occupation The Owl boasted: "I'm a thief...
From the gun-ridden streets of Chicago's gangland to the pleasant surroundings of a publicity office in the basement of the Harvard Union is a long way to travel, but Harvard's new director of sports publicity, Arthur Wild. has evolved along just such an exciting trail of journalistic adventure...
...intimate friend of Owney Madden. New York's No. 1 gang leader of the prohibition era, he became in the short space of two years, the public pal of J. Edgar Hoover, the No. 1 G-man of the repeal era." In 1932 Winchell's intimacy with gangland led to fear he would be rubbed out for knowing too much. In terror he fled to California, returned weeks later with a new enthusiasm for law, G-men, Uncle Sam, Old Glory...