Word: underworlders
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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...
...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...
...cannon factories began making fancy grillwork and iron dogs. When railroads made Western stage coach lines obsolescent, Wells Fargo got into the railway express business. With the passing of the horse, Studebaker Carriage works survived by manufacturing automobiles. The return of beer has similarly forced the nation's underworld into evolution. As was amply evidenced last week, the defunct beer racket is swiftly being superseded as a source of criminal revenue by the uglier, more desperate crime of kidnapping. Unlike a legitimate industry, a gang which has been running beer need not modify its plant or personnel...
...Coll had not been married into the underworld for nothing. She resolutely refused to give any in formation, and when confronted with Ventre, classically cried: "So you squealed...