Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promised he would be arrested daily for vagrancy as long as he remained in Miami, Salvatore Spitale, celebrated underworld intermediary of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, left town within 48 hours, claiming his departure was occasioned not by the police but by the embarrassment the publicity was causing his young children in Manhattan schools...
...once lavished upon 'legging is now employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff is usually 600-to-1. Moreover, the runner generally gets 10% of the winnings as commission and an additional tip is in order. Welching is common, and since...
With an uneven novel of the Philadelphia underworld, Steps Going Down, John Mclntyre won the $4,000 prize as the U. S. entry in a complicated international literary sweepstakes known as the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition (TIME, Sept. 7, Oct. 26). Sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart, Eric Pinker & Adrienne Morrison, the Literary Guild, Warner Brothers and by publishers in ten other countries, the All-Nation's Competition carried a first prize of $19,000. This grand prize was won by a Hungarian woman, onetime secretary in the Hungarian Embassy in Egypt, with this clever, smooth novel written from...
...Isle of Fury" is a scenario writer's nightmare, containing every possible dramatic situation with the exception of the World War. Margaret Lindsay and Humphrey Bogart, he of the underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives...
Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...