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When Sayde could finally talk, she told the cops about her dealings with Moe and his brother. They traced a thug named Abe Greenburg to New York, where he confessed that Moe and Gail had put him up to the job. They also found the man with the gun, a short, swart ex-convict, Joe Miller. The boys were pretty mad. Between them they'd made only...
...Portland, Ore., matronly Mrs. Vern C. Edwards, knocked down by a young holdup man, questioned him sympathetically about his motives as she sat on the pavement, rubbing her bruises. Result: the thug courteously helped her to rise, hunted and found her lost earring, kissed her on the cheek and ran off, clutching 50? Mrs. Edwards had given...
Afterwards, everybody felt better. Until then, pro hockey just hadn't been its old unruly self this season. The 1947 accent was on razzle-dazzle attack, not rough & tumble. The man of the year - Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard - was not the biggest thug on ice but a shy fellow with a sure...
...Cleveland, a landlord named Arthur Clark hit on a novel way of evicting tenants who refused to pay more than OPA rents. He hired a gang of thugs, equipped them with pistols, blackjacks, clubs and a baseball bat, sicked them on his tenants. One tenant died of a cracked skull. Last week Clark and one thug were convicted of second-degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment...
...portion of the electorate was disfranchised, because voters had to present as many as 16 documents to get cards entitling them to ballots. On election day 11,000 cardless citizens braved Communist thug lines surrounding the U.S. Military Mission headquarters to sign charges that they had been denied the right to vote. Yet some voters displayed fistfuls of cards. One Communist showed me 47-two for himself, three for his wife, 42 for distribution to trusted friends...