Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month gunmen began spreading their shots. One night as he drove home to suburban Miramar, Sugar Merchant Julio Lobo Olavarria, one of Cuba's richest men, was wounded by gunfire from a passing sedan. Lobo denied having refused a $50,000 shakedown demand...
...gesture was meant to warn the British that, if it came to real war, the Jews had a well organized army. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi went further: they kidnaped six British officers, held them as hostages for two Irgun gunmen who had been sentenced to death. Gangs raided central railway shops in Haifa; nine Jews were killed. The Haviva Reik, carrying 450 illegal immigrants (see cut), was nabbed by British patrol ships and brought into Haifa. She flew a banner proclaiming: "Keep the gate open; we are not the last...
...Memphis, once the toughest town along the Mississippi, there were no prostitutes, gamblers, policy games or gunmen. Crump had simply banished them. Beale Street Negroes could damage each other only by exercising some ingenuity. Crump's cops shook them down nightly for pistols, Arkansas toothpicks,* clubs, brass knucks, razors and ice picks. There was virtually no grafting-Crump forbade it. Officials who took money for themselves (as opposed to accepting contributions from liquor stores, business houses, jukebox and pinball operators for the Crump machine) were prosecuted...
...where the oldest and newest forces in the South seethed and mingled. Cotton still came to Memphis levees on high-stacked steamboats, but many a planter had moved to town to be a businessman. Memphis nights were noisy with roistering male voices and the jangle of sporting-house pianos. Gunmen, loggers, sunburned planters, rivermen from all the channels between St. Louis and New Orleans fought, gambled, drank and consorted with brigades of painted Memphis whores...
There were few disorders. The most spectacular occurrence was in Rome, where masked Fascist gunmen seized the master radio transmitter and for a few minutes sang Fascist hymns and cheered Mussolini...