Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...