Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was only one noteworthy murder in Chicago last week. Albert B. Courchene, longtime city plumbing inspector, was shot down by machine gunners as he stood on the sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded...
...pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor for rescue work when the Steamer General Slocum burned in the East River in 1904 with...
...book, which begins to relate the stalking of Mr. Howard by a gang of gunmen at Atlantic City,, suddenly goes insanely askew. Tom? Howard has an hilarious conversation with a ghost, but the show's few genuinely good moments are supplied by a hitherto unknown young man named Hal Le Roy whose tapdancing is peerless. None of the music, none of the gags, save The Gang's All Here from being a pretty waste of money...
...Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over for a London season, and the equally desirable Kitchie Valentine paid a visit to Berry's next-door neighbor, changes came fast & furious. Engagements, false beards, gunmen, a copper mine, burglary, wedding bells are all Wodehumorously manipulated...
...presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced an entirely new, voluminous tariff bill...