Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copper's Pay. Bill Drury was a plainclothesman but his clothes made a mockery of the title-his suits were" about as plain as a Capone mobster's funeral, and almost as expensive. He became a lieutenant and acting captain, and quickly fell into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather...
...Kansas City the motive for last month's assassination of Mobster Charles Gargotta was made a little clearer: Gargotta had squealed. Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury...
...last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...
Married. Virginia Hill, 33, pretty, hard-boiled mistress of the late Mobster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel; and her ski instructor, Herman Johann ("Hans") Hauser, 38, Austrian glamour boy who was jailed in 1942 as an enemy alien; she for the fourth time; in Elko...
...second time in a year, gangsters dynamited the $100.000 Brentwood, Calif, villa of Hollywood Mobster Mickey Cohen, 38. Mickey and his wife, LaVonne, who were asleep in another room at the time, were unhurt. But the neighbors were getting a little peevish over all the racket made by Mickey's playmates...