Word: guzik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, one of the successors to Capone's power, came to his wake. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, another underworld kingpin, sent flowers. So did politicians from the First Ward. But the funeral at old St. Mary's Catholic Church was a disappointment-half the seats were empty, and Hinky Dink got only three automobile loads of flowers, as compared to Bathhouse John's seven...
...small-time gambler. But Dago Mangano had brains and a pleasant, breezy personality. He soon became known as a man of executive ability. When Al Capone ran Chicago's Syndicate, Mangano was a trusted lieutenant. After Capone there was much unrest. The late Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, Jack Guzik (TIME, May 1) and the incumbent Tony Accardo, successively became Syndicate chieftains...
...Business Transaction." The meaning of these unsolved homicides had begun to sink in last week when Chicago had its first bigtime kidnapping since the days of Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy. One Jack Guzik, a sawed-off gangster known in Chicago journalese as the "business manager" of the Syndicate, disappeared. On the day of his disappearance he was wearing a double-breasted suit of the sharpest cut and the newest hue-Australian kangaroo blue-a red tie, striped shirt, a Chesterfield overcoat...
...kidnapping had been reported to Guzik's close pal, one Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin. Thirty-six hours later, with Hymie keeping his loud mouth tightly closed, Guzik announced through an intermediary that he was safe & sound. Said he: "It was just a holdup, followed by a business transaction...
...Chicago Tribune, its conscience recently aroused, has been virtuously bugling the gambling evil for the past month, has "exposed" a group of characters known as the Guzik-Nitti gang, amid waves of public apathy. Last week the routine rigmarole was repeated. Out of a grand jury gambling investigation came tall, wavy-haired Mayor Ed Kelly. The look on his face was familiar to all connoisseurs of "B" movies-the Leading Rancher as he pounds the table and says: "Boys, Rustling Must Stop...