Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus men murdered in gangland-style in Greater Boston since March, 1964, was a 26-year old former boxer when killed. He was shot five times in the head and his body left in a sports car in Topsfield. Police believe that DiSeglio, allegedly a minor underworld figure, was murdered in East Boston and his body transported to the rural North Shore town...
...Baron, supposedly angry at former underworld colleagues because of threats against relatives and friends, is willing to talk about the murders. Angiulo, because of the nature of the charge, is being held without bail. He faces a possible death sentence...
...fairgrounds and crying out against gamblers as "a lying, perjured, rum-soaked and libidinous lot." U.S. Protestantism was especially hostile to gambling, which it saw as luring people into extravagance and away from work. By 1910, most states had passed antigaming laws, and gradually gambling went underground-or underworld. Says Gambling Historian Henry Chafetz: "Men had shot and killed each other across gaming tables on the Mississippi and the gold fields of the West, but it took the 20th century to make gamblers mobsters...
...hooked; 2) lotteries in particular are played mostly by lower-income families and thus constitute an unjust tax on the poor; 3) in places like Nevada, where gambling is legal, criminal elements have certainly not faded away. Virgil Peterson, director of the Chicago crime commission, argues that the underworld inevitably gains a foothold under any licensing system by organizing legal "fronts" and establishing rival illegal operations that place the state-operated venture at a disadvantage...
Died. Thomas Gaetano Luchese, 67, alias "Three-Finger Brown" (he lost his right forefinger in an accident), shadowy underworld figure named in 1963 by Gangland Songbird Joe Valachi as a ranking dope racketeer and presumed successor to Frank Costello as the Mafia's New York political fix-it man, a dapper native of Sicily whose only prison time, despite two murder arrests, was a short term on a 1922 stolen-car rap, all the while fiercely maintaining that his luxurious home and six-figure income was the product of honest hard work in his Seventh Avenue garment factories; after...