Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...fiction the elegiac note is absent, but the same restrained exoticism still appears. Each of the stories is good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item...
Although Author Asbury devotes separate chapters to such old standbys for local colorists as the keelboatmen, voodoo, Lafitte the Pirate, riverboat gamblers, the Black Hand Society and the Mafia, most of his book is given over to the swift summaries of crimes of violence and to careful description of the histories, habits, earnings and untimely ends of the lost ladies who once crowded Basin Street and the district nearby. Typical of these case histories is that of Fanny Sweet, tall, homely, bespectacled girl who was thrown out of half-a-dozen of the toughest brothels in a tough city...
...CAMBERWELL BEAUTY-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Kidnapping, black magic, the Mafia, love and other forms of pursuit; in short, a story half-fantasy, half-thriller...
...three years earnest Fascists scoured Sicily worming evidence from terrified farmers against the Mafia. In 1929, when the offices of Fascist Mori were jammed with evidence of more than 100 murders, the first of these great mass trials began (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Fascist prosecutors rushed from Rome to Sicily. In May 1929, 150 Mafisti were convicted at Termini Imerese. In January 1930, 170 more were sent to jail at Palermo. In July of the same year nine were given life sentences at Agrigento. Last week's trial nearly finishes...