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Word: gangsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...general manifesto, he announced: "I have lived in exile in 15 European countries in flight from the U. S. income-tax collectors. If Andorra refuses me, the only other European country I may visit is Liechtenstein. . . . I'm a real gangster, it's true, but I'm no criminal, and I want to remain what I have always been -honest. Europeans make a big mistake when they give honesty a meaning it never had. I've never kidnapped anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDORRA: No Admittance | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...freed by the gangster because she was a captious blond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...final spasm, still at the interview, Margo learns that her gangster brother has been shot in a prison break. Like a gallant trouper she chokes back her sobs, and the busy curtains close for keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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