Word: gangsterisms
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...Manhattan's squalid Hell's Kitchen, Killer Burke served his first stretch in 1941 (for breaking and entering), soldiered with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Normandy invasion, afterwards settled down as a dock-front gunman, kept on a $300-per-month retainer by New York gangster brass. In 1954 Burke was hired to machine gun Joseph ("Specs") O'Keefe, stoolie suspect in Boston's Brink's holdup case, flubbed the job as wounded O'Keefe lived to tell all (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956), but made a daring escape from Boston's Charles...
...turned into a night of feverish speedup. From their barracks the paratroopers and others smoothly took over the city of Maracay (pop. 80,000) and the air bases. Before 6:30 a.m., two Sabre jets whined off to Caracas. Over Radio Maracay, the rebels announced: "We have cornered the gangster who surrounded himself with thieves and murderers...
Disregard for law and order by the Nazis, Conant declared, hastened the collapse of the Republic. Hitler's success was due to his "plain gangster tactics." He called the new German Constitution, drawn up by French, British, and American representatives, and ratified by the German Parliament in 1948, a positive step towards establishing a democratic government...
...alternative is cooperating with Batista in the election that he has set for June1. To this idea, rebels of every coloring snap one answer: "We will not deal with a gangster for our country." They will stick with Castro, who may become the brilliant liberator that his young followers see, or only, as one older rebel worried last week, "a man on horseback." It was not lost on thoughtful Cubans last week that Colonel Fermin Cowley, murdered by the rebels and mourned by Batista, was an idealistic young rebel himself 25 years...
Razzia (Kassler) is a harrowingly realistic gangster picture-perhaps the most painstaking study of criminal methods that has ever been made in an entertainment film...