Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 Side gunman...
...coincidence. At any rate, it is worth noting that of the three hold-overs in Boston currently running, only one is at a theatre incurably addicted to the practice. "Grand Illusion" at the Fine Arts is finishing its fifth, and 'its said final week; Jesse James, the rootin' tootin' gunman in technicolor, is shooting his way through a second week at the Met; and "Gunga Din," replete with a tribe of murderous Indian natives, is still at Keith's. All three, and especially "grand Illusion," are worth seeing; likewise the new Joan (Hedy Lamarr) Bennett, coming to Loew...
...critics of Nazi Germany, but none yet are so eloquent as Thomas Mann. In his latest book, "This Peace," he propounds the theory that "in the guise of hypocrisy and demoralized pacifism" Czechoslovakia was betrayed by European democracies so that Fascism would be strengthened for its role as hired gunman against Russia--a role which Hitler promises to play in "Mein Kampf." This brief essay condemns, in language at once controlled and vitriolic, the "pro-fascist" English statesmen for their leading role in this "foulest page of modern history...
Last week in Salt Lake City's death house Gunman Deering explained that he chose a firing squad because "when I was a kid raising hell everyone told me I'd end up on the gallows, so I thought I'd fool them. Also, there's an old saying I like: 'Live by the sword and die by the sword...
...week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail in court, lost his temper when Weinberg told of conferring with him, cried: "You know you lie!" Thereafter, two respectable witnesses...