Word: gurrah
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...days when "coolie wages" were paid there by the makers of low-priced dresses), 25,000 union dressmakers listened one day as their leaders issued a warning to the remaining unorganized employers: the union would not tolerate the return of gangsters like the late Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter and Jacob ("Gurrah") Shapiro...
...York summer resort Mr. Max Heitner, Bronx real-estate agent, once met an agreeable, balding fellow named Benjamin Tannenbaum, who said he was an accountant. They became friends. Police knew Ben as Benny the Boss, gangster aide of Louis Lepke and Jacob Gurrah, convicted dope and fur racketeers. One night last week, while Benny the Boss was sitting up with the Heitner baby and the parents were out, the mob found Benny, left him dead with two bullets in his chest. The baby slept through...
...Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake ("Gurrah")* Shapiro, on racketeering charges. People who knew about him began disappearing, also. Two were murdered (one just up the street from Police Commissioner Valentine's home in Brooklyn). Last month a harmless Bronx inhabitant was murdered, apparently mistaken for another man whose knowledge the Leopard would not consider harmless...
...When Shapiro propelled a pushcart on the Lower East Side, "Gurrah" (get out) was what Shapiro snarled at East Side pushcarters to whom he first sold "protection." Those who did not "Gurrah" got their carts pushed over...