Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is what that dirty gangster thinks! Who does that filthy liar think he is fooling...
...consisted of writing verse and pulp stories, of writing home for money. Married in 1933, and now father of a wise four-year-old son, Fearing has increased both his weight and poetry earnings. (He observes smugly of his latest photograph that it makes him look like an Italian gangster.) In 1936 and again in 1938 he was awarded a $2,000 Guggenheim fellowship...
...when George E. Browne began to rise in the world, Al Capone had been two years in prison and uncaught gangsters were turning from liquor to labor rackets. Mild, mannerly Mr. Browne (no gangster) was a labor careerist who had just been elected president of A. F. of L.'s union for theatre no-collar-men: the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. His assistant and bodyguard was one William Bioff, whose record in Chicago included numerous arrests, one conviction for pandering, two efforts to muscle in on Chicago unions, several published references to him as a minor South...
...Baruch was born 32 years ago in Berlin, schooled in The Hague, went to the U. S. at 16. In Manhattan he was a Shubert office boy and manager of Manhattan's Bijou Theatre before he changed his name to Bilbo, went to Chicago and fell in with gangster Al Capone in 1926. How close he was to Scarface Al is a moot question. There is no record that he ever lay in bilboes...
...canvas. But with metropolitan art critics, the astute, silk-toppered Artist Sir William Rothenstein, the Duke of Kent and bevies of Mayfair socialites swarming to see his pictures, and with the whole show bought by Scottish Art Dealer Andrew G. Elliot, the bushy-headed, self-styled ex-gangster pal could well afford to smile...