Entry from
September 18, 2004
Murder, Inc.
"Murder, Inc." is the name of the old criminal association of the 1930s and 1940s. The name was coined in a New York World-Telegram headline. I provided the first Oxford English Dictionary citation of that, below:
Murder, Inc., an organized network of gangsters in the United States founded in the 1930s by Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter to carry out assassinations and assaults for money; (more generally) any group of organized and violent criminals. Murder, Incorporated = Murder, Inc.
1940 N.Y. World-Telegram 18 Mar. 4/3 As prominent as Reles and Goldstein were in gang circles, neither of them was the president of *Murder, Inc.
1940 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 14/5 The principal speaker..drew a parallel between '*Murder Incorporated', recently uncovered by Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer's investigations, and 'Moral Murder Incorporated' as represented by the cloak of academic freedom thrown around a man and his pagan theories of sex morality'.
Murder, Inc., an organized network of gangsters in the United States founded in the 1930s by Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter to carry out assassinations and assaults for money; (more generally) any group of organized and violent criminals. Murder, Incorporated = Murder, Inc.
1940 N.Y. World-Telegram 18 Mar. 4/3 As prominent as Reles and Goldstein were in gang circles, neither of them was the president of *Murder, Inc.
1940 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. 14/5 The principal speaker..drew a parallel between '*Murder Incorporated', recently uncovered by Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer's investigations, and 'Moral Murder Incorporated' as represented by the cloak of academic freedom thrown around a man and his pagan theories of sex morality'.