Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst's morning Examiner the same day had been just as certain that Bugsy was slain by two imported gunmen because he had paid too much attention to a New York gang leader's girl. By next day the Examiner had still another theory: the murder was ordered by the leaders of a national narcotic ring...
...away from Lake Success, another Arab nodded approvingly at Cattan's performance. From his beflowered villa in Cairo's Qubba Gardens (guarded inside by Palestinian gunmen, outside by Egyptian troops), Haj Amin el Husseini, onetime Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator, directed the work of the Arab Higher Committee. Said he: "We go to New York, but we are under no obligations to accept any solution unless it is favorable. If unfavorable, we will fight...
...routine," said the now inactive union boss (U.M.W. District 50): "I live in a sparsely settled section." At Miami Beach, gunmen who robbed the Beachcomber nightclub got the jewels stored there by Veteran Torchsinger Sophie ("Last of the Red Hot Mammas") Tucker. Her estimate: $75,000. Ex-Scandals Producer George White, six months in a California work camp after an auto accident in which he killed two people, lost his plea for parole (he said he had pyorrhea and a bum knee), went back to tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private...
...ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until 1929. That was the year that five Capone gunmen, three dressed like harmless policemen, carried out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving seven men dead in a North Side garage. It was the Austerlitz of gang killings...
Taut, 43-year-old Vito Marcantonio was born in the congressional district he lives in and represents. To its gunmen, madams, policy and dope peddlers, he is "The Hon. Fritto Misto" (Mixed Fry), the man who began as a Republican with the blessing of East Harlem's Fiorello LaGuardia, the man who ladles out jobs, pocket money, speeches-anything for votes...