What is a meat-eater slang for?
It is slang for a policeman or politician who accepts or extorts graft.
Philadelphia-born John T. Noland (1896-1931) earned it early in his career. As a teenager, he joined a gang called the Hudson Dusters, which stole packages from the backs of trucks. For his ability to dodge police in his efforts, he was nicknamed Legs. Diamond was one of his chosen surnames.
The woman taken from her Berkeley, California, home on February 5, 1974, by the Symbionese Liberation Army did so. She adopted the name Tania in honor of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara’s mistress, Tania Guitterez Baer.
Detroit lawmen coined the term in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They realized that Saturday night holdups were committed with handguns purchased in quick one-hour trips to Toledo, Ohio. There, guns could be bought at filling stations and flower shops for $5 or $10, without time restrictions.
The Black Hand was the name for groups of extortionists who preyed upon Italian immigrants in the United States from about 1890 to 1920. It was active in cities such as Chicago, Kansas City, New Orleans, and New York. The Mafia, an older and more complex criminal organization, originated in Sicily in the nineteenth and…
The two young men from Chicago were fired with the idea of committing the “perfect murder”. They killed fourteen-year-old Bobbie Franks in May 1924 and were sentenced on September 10 to life imprisonment for murder and 99 years for kidnapping. Richard (“Dickie”) Loeb was slashed to death in a brawl in January 1936 in Northern…
The throat-slashings of six prostitutes in London’s East End occurred between August and early November 1888. The identity of Jack the Ripper was never verified.