Word: lucania
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...trial in Supreme Court were swart, droop-eyed Charles Lucania and nine henchmen charged with having put New York City brothels on a big-business basis. Until 1933, explained Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in his opening address to the jury, the city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known...
...feared was Lucania, declared tall, handsome young Prosecutor Dewey, that the bondsmen promptly quit their business. Independent bookers were either driven out of the city at gun point or forced to join the syndicate...
Owing to the critical illness of his wife, M. Anatole Le Braz, who has been delivering the Hyde lecture series on "Brittany" under the auspices of the Circle Franca is, left Boston on the mid-night train yesterday, and will, sail today by the S.S. Lucania for his home in Rennes, Brittany. The rest of the Hyde series has been permanently cancelled...