Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform and a hard-hitting little criminal lawyer named Raber were the spearheads of the attack. Ahead lay the city's first real chance to get convictions and break a spell which holds a bil lion dollars worth of business in thrall to crooked labor unions and their underworld "gorillas...
...BARBARY COAST: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld -Herbert Asbury-Knopf...
...arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average of two murders a day. The town was nearly wiped out by incendiary fire six times before the Vigilance Committee drove out the Sydney Ducks and temporarily restored the city's underworld to normal limits in debauchery...
...fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...
...fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...