Word: gangsterisms
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Thirty years ago the notorious Johnny Callahan, famed Manhattan Bowery gangster, announced that he had heeded the call of "Jerusalem Slim"* and would gamble and riot no more. Now he is the Rev. John Callahan, Superintendent of the Hadley Rescue Hall, No. 293 Bowery. At 7 p. m. every evening he admits some 175 vagrants, who are permitted to sleep on the floor of the mission during the night, but must arise and depart at 5 a. m. lest they slumber while they might be looking for work...
...complete silence, except for the tramp, tramp, tramp of about one hundred thousand feet and the squeaking of an odd pair of shoes, a funeral procession several miles long wended its way through Vienna. In the hearse was the 21-year-old body of Josef Mohapel, slain by a gangster...
...other is that crime cannot pay dividends commensurate with its risk. The yegg at the safe, the thug at the holdup, the gangster in his running fight-always he must have all the luck on his side if he is to escape the gloomy, bitter penalty of the law. So say the advertisements under their challenging caption...
...bank and was appointed Secretary of the Transit Commission after an acrimonious debate on the part that women will play in the national election. Conservative estimates placed the damage at $10,000. At the hospital the victim said his attention had been called to the assault shortly after the gangster had shot him down...
Reason for the sale of the News is found in its tabloid style, small size, picture service, candidly low appeal. Its photographers are either omnipresent or winged. Last week a gangster and a paymaster's guard fought a duel fatal to both; the News' camera reached the scene before the coroner, obtaining a picture of the two bodies as they lay in the street...