Word: gangsterisms
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...York summer resort Mr. Max Heitner, Bronx real-estate agent, once met an agreeable, balding fellow named Benjamin Tannenbaum, who said he was an accountant. They became friends. Police knew Ben as Benny the Boss, gangster aide of Louis Lepke and Jacob Gurrah, convicted dope and fur racketeers. One night last week, while Benny the Boss was sitting up with the Heitner baby and the parents were out, the mob found Benny, left him dead with two bullets in his chest. The baby slept through...
High Sierra (Warner). After Prohibition the gangster as an everyday aspect of U. S. life began to go the way of the Indian and the cowboy. The most recent gangster picture to shoot its way out of Hollywood has less of realistic savagery than of the quaint, nostalgic atmosphere of costume drama...
...making people invisible. However, the story rapidly runs out of breath, thereafter staggers through a plodding plot about a fatuous young moneybags (John Howard) who is inexplicably attracted to the unseen subject of the Barrymorian experiments (Virginia Bruce). Added but unnecessary wrinkles are furnished by eyebrowed Oscar Homolka, a gangster who steals Barrymore's machine for nefarious purposes...
...told, said he, of a plan to elect him international president of the Union of Hotel & Restaurant Employees (of which the bartenders' union is a local), with the understanding that, as president, he would also work for the mob. Testified McLane: "He [Nitti] said he made Browne," and Gangster Nitti gave McLane to understand he could "make" him. If he refused to run for the office, it was implied that he "would be found in an alley." McLane ran, secretly passed the word to his friends in the Federation not to vote for him, and was not elected...
...Thwarted Gangster Nitti, said McLane, thereupon took over the Chicago local, ousted McLane from his job as business agent. Nitti's aides told McLane: "We are taking over. . . . You won't do anything we want you to do and we are taking over. . . . You got to go away." McLane went. In this simple manner, said he, Nitti gangsters had taken over Chicago waiters, hotel clerks, hat-check girls, cooks, soda jerkers, organized the "Local Joint Board & Council of Chicago," and obliged all union members to pay tribute...