Racketeers

Usage examples of gangsters.

An influx of gangsters looking to exploit Prohibition became affiliated with the Purples.

From the chaotic streets of Detroit's lower east side, this group of predominately Jewish gangsters would muscle their way into the underworld by 1927, where they would remain through a five year reign of terror.

In a newspaper interview with Purple gangsters who had been jailed for violating Prohibition laws in 1929, all unanimously denied the existence of the Gang.

The real reason, of course, was to alienate gangsters from their lawyers.

He also provided other gangsters with entertainment when describing its location.

Hardened gangsters would double over with glee at the sound of Davis repeatedly talking about liquor behind the pishmission.

By this time the names of Sugar House gangsters and Purple gangsters seemed to become interchangeable in the local press.

Solomon suggested to Lerner that he should come back with him to the tire store and get a look at the gangsters who had been hanging around the shop earlier.

Bernstein, who was a stranger to Lerner, told him that he had learned of his trouble with the Sugar House Gangsters and asked if he could be of any help in resolving the problem.

Such beginnings are a common trait among gangsters, who are adept at turning external deprivation into inner strength.

The passion for betting on a daily number was common ground between Italian and Irish immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York, and an army of street hustlers and gangsters was eager to profit from this passion.

Often gangsters are raised in homes without a father, the absence caused by death, prison or abandonment.

The gangsters were again quick to capitalize on such an availability of cheap labor, offering tax-free solid wages in return for a pulled gun or a late-night heist.

The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

I found gangsters loyal, first and foremost, to food from their country of origin.