Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days Willie Bioff prattled away about the troubles and triumphs of the shakedown industry. His recital not only damaged the defendants, but scorched U.S. workers who tolerate criminal union leadership and Hollywood bigwigs who take orders from the underworld...
...sharp narrow face, a twisted nose and a sensitive mouth, won a cake at an English fair and found him self in a maze of fifth columnists - the cake, intended for someone else, contained photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk - years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character...
...furnished apartments, a floating population of clerks, barkeeps, nightclub entertainers, girls with no visible means of support. And Touhy and Banghart were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of other public enemies before them: they stayed out of the nightspots, kept away from their old underworld friends...
...this imaginary Chicago there's an underworld, of course. . . . Dutch Schultz Hitler runs the North Side. Al Capone Mussolini controls the South Side. . . . Big Joe Stalin has everything his own way on the West Side. But none of these apes can muscle in on the Loop because the cops control that section pretty thoroughly. Still, that's where all the banks are. . . . You know, José, something like rich colonies . . . owned by the British and French empires. So Dutch and Muscles [Mussolini] decide to crack the Loop, whether Patrolman Hull and Officer Churchill like...
...issues of this war lies a deeper question, now posed to the world. Which do you choose-the free spirit of man and the moral idealism that has shaped the values and ideas of our civilization, or this horrid substitute, this foul obsession now resuscitated from the underworld of the past...