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Word: gunmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crime has been more rampant since roped because former bootleggers have been forced to turn from the liquor trade which was comparatively harmless to the peace of the country, to robbery, holdups, and murder. Gunmen have no longer the occupation of promoting their employers' trade from them gangs and thus have been turned from in society. As time goes on they will to come more and more dangerous as their supplies of ready cash dwindle away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "United Police System, Controlled by Central Committee, Most Efficient," States Needham | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...easy after the shooting is over to outline what police, bank clerks, and on-lookers should do to forestall the escape of gunmen, and to suggest that telephoning the police in the event of a hold-up should be the first thought to occur to the most inexperienced in the ways of gangsters. Likewise, from all sides comes advice concerning teletype, vault alarms, swiftness of justice, and consolidated detective agencies, yet few take seriously any suggestion to enforce strictly the limiting of machine gun sales to authorized persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACHINE GUN SALE | 2/27/1934 | See Source »

...Chicago's First National Bank one afternoon last week terrified customers and employes were lined up by two Indiana desperadoes, John Dillinger and John Hamilton. Outside were eight policemen. John Hamilton took time to scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Special Delivery | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

CLUB RIFLE: Walnut Hill. Some notorious gunmen can be seen here and an occasional shooting occurs, in which case you had better get out of range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...factitious timeliness, Crucible turned out to be a hoarse and inexpert melodrama. Plot: a philanthropist and onetime gambler takes an interest in the girl's painting, offers the boy a job. Audi- ences soon become aware of the philanthropist's real objectives: 1) to get his three gunmen out of the Tombs, 2) to woo the girl, 3) to frame the boy for the gunmen's jailbreak, 4) to disguise the fact that he is the sinister "Blight," the power behind the illicit drug traffic. To advance objective No. 1 he forces the young people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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