Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capone, secure behind his bulletproof vest, his gunmen, his cordon of attorneys, his wall of alibis, was beyond the law. He was said to have $15,000,000 set aside just to grease his way out of trouble. He was arrested and questioned about the killing of Johnny Duffy, and released; arrested and questioned in the killing of Joe Howard, released again. He was indicted for violation of the Prohibition law in 1926; the indictment was quashed for lack of evidence. No one ever testified that the elegantly porcine hoodlum ever committed a murder...
...newer German Nazis. One afternoon last week, as the Premier was being driven home to lunch, a young woman suddenly shoved a cart in front of his car, which was forced to stop with squealing brakes. At the same moment up swooped two cars from which leaped masked gunmen. They rapidly blazed away at Little Hercules. His bodyguard went down under the fusillade, his chauffeur collapsed, and the Rumanian Premier toppled forward riddled with bullets...
...more delirious moments, after coming home from the pictures, we are apt to think of the United States as one vast Coney Island, peopled with gunmen's molls, Dead End kids, corn-fed blondes, tap-dancing Negroes, G-Men, bubble dancers, tough babies, flagpole sitters, Kentucky moonshiners, Irish cops and co-eds with voices like nails on a sheet of glass. This is rather like confining one's study of English life to the side shows at the circus...
...studying the map of San Francisco which accompanied your article (TIME, Feb. 27), I was shocked to note the district bounded by Larkin, Mason, Turk and Ellis Streets described as the "toughest part of town," and I am roused to protest. . . . The word "tough" conjures gangsters and gunmen-a district where decent citizens would hesitate to find themselves after dark and where unescorted women would be unsafe...
Three years ago, with an angry blast at California's then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned...