Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Floyd moved with his parents at an early age to the Cookson Hills District of the Oklahoma Ozarks. There he got the nickname of "Choc" and a bad reputation. At 18 he robbed a neighborhood post-office of $350 in pennies. A three-year apprenticeship in the St. Louis underworld landed him, in 1925, in Missouri Penitentiary for a payroll robbery. There he peddled drugs, struck down guards, and met "Red" Lovett, who teamed up with him on his release in 1929. For the next four years he robbed rural banks, taking on new partners as his old ones fell...
...years Corsican-born Police Inspector Paul Mariani ruled the underworld of the northern manufacturing city of Lille in a manner that can only be compared to Broadway's Tenderloin in the days of the notorious Police Lieutenant Becker. Fortnight ago he was arrested on a simple charge, but quickly the accusations mounted: Mariani and his gang of Corsican relatives ran a secret printing press in Paris for forging automobile licenses. They operated a number of fences for stolen goods. They were embroiled in white slavery and drug peddling. Then came the first suspicion of murder. One of Mariani's dope...
...story is one of liquor, love and fights, of the Lantenengo Street smart set of Gibbsville, of the town's underworld. Julian and Caroline English, married four years and still in love with each other, attend a Christmas Eve party at the Lantenengo Country Club. There Julian gets drunk, dashes his highball into the fat face of the richest man in town whose stories are a bore. Result: a black eye for the richest man in town, new enemies for Julian, a fight with Caroline...
Murdered. John Lazia, 37, North Side Italian political boss of Kansas City, a ranking lieutenant of Missouri Democratic Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast; by two unidentified men wielding a machine-gun and a shotgun; in Kansas City. Lazia's underworld activities were chiefly characterized by his attempts to prevent major crimes and keep outside gunmen from Kansas City. His followers planned a $40,000 funeral...
...cinema lacks the exciting detail, the intimacy of the book but neither book nor picture will help the police clear up the Rothstein murder. The picture's hero, Murray Golden (Spencer Tracy), might be any screen gambler from Hollywood. The plot, in which a rival underworld character grows jealous of Golden's success, and Golden's wife (Helen Twelvetrees) and mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein...