Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply, filed in Supreme Court of New York County, onetime Chicago Tribune Reporter Rascoe charges Mr. Annenberg, while in employ of the Chicago Hearst papers "directed the activities of various sluggers and gunmen who were hired by him for the purpose of breaking up and destroying the carrier . . . system of ... the Chicago Tribune. . . . Sluggers . . . intimidated dealers . . . wrecked their stands and destroyed copies of ... the Tribune...
Later, Mr. Rascoe claims, Mr. Annenberg was hired away from Hearst by the Tribune to perform the same function and "in the course of this . . . war between newspapers and their gunmen, at least 30 of whom, were under the leadership of . . . the plaintiff [Mr. Annenberg] . . . 27 newspaper dealers, newsboys or others were killed" fostering in Chicago "a great amount of open lawlessness...
Putting two and two together and making news, Attorney McWilliams had reported to the committee that in Tsar Browne's Chicago bailiwick, newspapers reporting two 1935 labor murders had referred to Bioff and one Montana as "South Side gunmen wanted for questioning" and as "bodyguards for George E. Browne." When the hearings got under way, however, the committee found this stuff a little too hot to handle, and, after a week of inquiry into I.A.T.S.E.'s Hollywood methods, the investigation was adjourned. If Attorney McWilliams can authenticate his allegations, the inquiry will be resumed...
...Cubans are shot down by gunmen as they leave the cafe, thus making their comrades suspect that Morgan had betrayed the trio. Morgan returns to his tourist fishing parties, only to have his fishing tackle lost overboard by a tourist, who at cruise-end welches on making the loss good. The tackle cost $360, must be replaced if Morgan is to continue as a party-boatman. The rest of the story relates the more & more dangerous expedients he is driven...
Michigan towns this year have had twelve successful bank robberies. Midland, Mich., fearing that her turn might come, had deputized several businessmen to bear arms against such an emergency. One morning last week two gunmen entered Midland's Chemical State Savings Bank. The bank cashier ran to the bank president's aid, and the bandits began to fire, wounded both, ran out into the street, jumped into a car. Plunk! A bullet struck the driver's arm, the car crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing...