Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gangs had originally been one, a compact body organized against the Ku Klux Klan to protect the interests of the Herrin liquor trade. Carl Shelton and Charles Birger disagreed about something-a holdup, a woman, a rake-off-nobody was sure. Mr. Shelton had an armored car made in St..Louis and hired a squad of gunmen to go round with him. Mr. Birger got his own friends together. It was hard to say who would...
According to the conception of sovereign ethics prevalent before the war, this holdup is no doubt justifiable, simply because it is possible. But the new spirit of internationalism which attempts to prevent costly disturbances can not afford to tolerate the more obvious forms of obstruction...
...sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death of a young woman riding with an agent in an automobile, extortion of $40 from a Jewish rabbi, criminal assault and assaulting wife. The total number of prohibition enforcement officers convicted after trial...
...driving in the car of Dr. Stumpf, the Secretary of the Illinois Fundamentalist Association ... I did not see the beginning of the first holdup, but when I looked up there were two women, apparently drunk, who had been in the grasp of two men. The women had broken away, and, as I watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand...
...other is that crime cannot pay dividends commensurate with its risk. The yegg at the safe, the thug at the holdup, the gangster in his running fight-always he must have all the luck on his side if he is to escape the gloomy, bitter penalty of the law. So say the advertisements under their challenging caption...