Although the term "gangster" is used for any criminal from the 1920s or 30s that operated in a group, it refers to two different breeds. Mobsters belonged to organized crime rings. They generally ...

The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface , starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.

On 16 January 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution came into force, making it illegal to sell alcohol in the USA. The Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union ...

Sins of ministers were not to be visited on their families during the Civil War, but this order was not respected The wedding of Bridget Cole and Kevin O’Higgins on October 27, 1921. Also ...