Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued flourishing last week, such criminals as whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well...
Although promising as a new broom, Judge Swanson is taken only on approval by well-informed Chicagoans, who realize that he is politically obligated to Charles Samuel Deneen, perhaps the only U. S. Senator who ever attended a gangster's funeral. But Judge Swanson will be able to bear his political obligations lightly if he makes good his end of his alliance with the Chicago Association of Commerce, which backed Special Prosecutor Loesch and the Crime Commission...
...Singing Fool (still making records) ; Noah's Ark ($28,000. Chinese, Los Angeles); Our Dancing Daughters ($18,000. Fifth Avenue, Seattle) ; Me, Gangster ($17,000, Loew's State, St. Louis...
Past citations still current: The Patriot, Mother Knows Best, The Night Watch, Lonesome, Me, Gangster, Excess Baggage, Waterfront, The Docks of New York, Air Circus, Three Comrades and One Invention...
...ignorant wop and the gangster...