Word: gangsterized
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...Chicago, Gangster Frank Nitti and four aides faced a judge and jury on charges of conspiring to "seize" the Federation's local bartenders' union. Slated for chief witness against them was George McLane, the local's business agent. McLane, assured of police protection, had been frank enough in secret grand-jury hearings. But when it came to saying it out loud in open court, he had a change of heart, refused to testify. The judge had no choice but to order the jury to bring in an acquittal. Last week Nitti & aides went free...
Discovered running a vegetable juice stand at Palm Springs, Calif, were J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the late Manhattan gangster Dutch Schultz's lawyer who turned State's evidence on James J. Hines and the Schultz gang, and his redheaded, ex-showgirl wife, Hope Dare. Said Dixie: "All I want is to be left alone. Hope and I want a chance to live...
...Loud, persuasive Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 43, first made a name as an Assistant State's prosecutor in Chicago. He has been on every G. O. P. ticket in Illinois since he convicted Gangster Leo Brothers of murdering Chicago Tribune Reporter Jake Lingle, thus won that potent paper's support. He has never won. Now he hopes to beat Democratic Lawyer James M. Slattery, 62, who has had many an appointive job, never before run for office...
...passed back into the control of the bosses. The destruction of the ward and its intimate relationships tends to breed indifference in the voters and encourages group interests to put up candidates of their own. These difficulties have to be reckoned with; but how they will lead to "dictatorial gangster-rule," only the vision of a Mike Sullivan can perceive...
Said Knickerbocker: "We should go into war today-as soon as possible. The longer we wait the more chance we give the three gangster enemies of America to organize their attack upon us. ... If the British hold out until next spring and we aren't going to back them, they will say in effect: 'What's the use of going on? Why not make a deal with Germany at the expense...