Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey was appointed New York's special rackets prosecutor three years ago, he announced that his investigation would not be just another roundup of criminal small fry. He wanted to get "the real bosses." Prosecutor Dewey jailed some small racketeers, some big ones, notably Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, swart Sicilian kingpin of Manhattan's prostitute trust. Elected District Attorney by grateful New Yorkers last year, Mr. Dewey has since been nosing into the hierarchy of Harlem's numbers games (lotteries), a one-time $100,000,000-a-year racket ruled by the late No. 1 Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch...
...both of these, Capra, as the company's strongest financial asset, has been a more than acceptable substitute. A genial, stocky, 41-year-old son of Sicilian immigrants, he has twice won the top honors of his profession, the Motion Picture Academy's Award for It Happened One Night in 1935, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. Last year, after a prolonged dispute in which he charged Columbia with breach of contract, their differences were composed on a basis that pays Capra roughly $350,000 a year. He has personally created or vastly improved half-a-dozen...
Citing the above instances and others last week, Great Exile Leon Trotsky dispatched a letter to the juridical section of the League of Nations Secretariat charging that a centralized "mafia" of Soviet terrorists, like the famed Sicilian terrorist society, is now operating in Europe, killing and kidnapping opponents of the Stalinist regime. Trotsky demanded that a League tribunal be set up for investigation of these terroristic activities...
...donor's daughter, and for a Third Century Sicilian martyr, patroness of the blind...
...week's end, as his soldiers & mules tugged at gun carriages under a sizzling Sicilian sun, Il Duce broke his strenuous trip with a swimming party at Syracuse. The barrel-chested Duce, nattily decked out in blue trunks, stood on a rock and umpired a free-style race among Cabinet members and undersecretaries...