Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper thrillers, merged (and buried) Popular Magazine with another of their 15 periodicals-Complete Stories. The end of Popular, like the end of Everybody's, rang the knell of another semi-pretentious sheet which could not compete with the innumerable sporadic, cheap magazines which frankly pander yarns about gunmen, speakeasies, dope. Popular-Complete Stories, beginning with the December issue, will be smaller than Popular, will sell for 15? instead...
...Orangemen were not long in waiting for their revenge for Cootehill. Saturday the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Catholic) were to meet at Armagh. This time it was the Orangemen who felled trees, pulled up rails. Henry Bell, engineer of a freight train, was stopped by sullen gunmen, made to wreck his locomotive at an open gap in the rails. At Portadown, County Armagh, Orangemen and Republicans fought in the streets for two days with stones and bottles of Guinness's Stout. Orangemen rallied to the tune of "Dolly's Brae" and "Derry's Walls," and attempted...
...loosen the tight lips of those who know the gunmen, the New York World-Telegram and the Daily News each offered $5,000 reward. The Hearst American promised to pay $10,000 for "exclusive information." The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association posted a $10,000 reward...
...town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions to the Chicago gangland throne will probably not go unchallenged. Hardly had the Capone pleas been entered last week before two gunmen were shot down in a reawakened feud between the South Side gangs of Frank McErlane and Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell. Attorney Johnson said that the Government also had plans in the event of Torrio's return...
...Burke, "the most dangerous man alive" in the eyes of the Federal Government and police of 18 states, who had trailed him futilely for four years, captured by country detectives. So incredible did it seem to Burke that he begged the officers to show their badges, terrified lest rival gunmen had come to do away with...