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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.

While violent gangs and criminal outlaws are hardly an American invention, Prohibition in the 1920s did much to inspire the enduring images of gangsters as we know them now. Between 1931 and 1932 ...

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 ...