Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across a vacant lot, died with seven bullets in his flesh. . . . They, Frank Koncil and Charles Hrubek, were members of "Polack Joe" Saltis' bootlegging gang. Rival thugs had killed them. This was only another episode in Chicago's intramural liquor war, which has killed more than 100 gangsters,* an assistant district attorney, a lawyer and a few police-men in the last two years. It ends the treaty of peace, signed last October by greasy chieftains in a Loop hotel, while a captain of the police held their guns. More killings may soon be expected. The Saltis gang...
...home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill. The mayor, incautious, unsuspecting, opened the door. His callers took hasty shots at the 300-pound target, ran for their machines, left Mayor Adams dying across his threshold. Now the State of Illinois holds Charles Birger, gunman, gangster, as accessory to the murder of Joe Adams...
...Carolina State College to "awake out of their sleep and go into politics redheaded. . . . There never was a time when farmers had such negligible influence in government as now." And Editor Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped out many a Tennessee mountaineer, many a Chicago gangster, many a hone of political potentates. Puzzled citizens often wondered why two such potentates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen...
Thirty years ago the notorious Johnny Callahan, famed Manhattan Bowery gangster, announced that he had heeded the call of "Jerusalem Slim"* and would gamble and riot no more. Now he is the Rev. John Callahan, Superintendent of the Hadley Rescue Hall, No. 293 Bowery. At 7 p. m. every evening he admits some 175 vagrants, who are permitted to sleep on the floor of the mission during the night, but must arise and depart at 5 a. m. lest they slumber while they might be looking for work...
...complete silence, except for the tramp, tramp, tramp of about one hundred thousand feet and the squeaking of an odd pair of shoes, a funeral procession several miles long wended its way through Vienna. In the hearse was the 21-year-old body of Josef Mohapel, slain by a gangster...