Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slipped out to watch the Washington Senators beat the Boston...
...Boss. He had one meager item of consolation. The man who beat him was neither an independent, a reformer, nor a Republican upstart. He was John V. Kenny, onetime Hague lieutenant, whose own father, Eddie, had taught Frank Hague the ropes and got him his first political job as a constable more than 40 years ago. Young John Kenny became boss of the Second Ward. Then, a year ago, Hague had tossed him out because John was getting "too popular." Said Kenny frankly: "If Hague had not thrown me out, I probably would still be a member of the machine...
...union, for all its immense power and prestige, had felt some of the old troublesome signs: hoodlums had walked into the offices of the union and beat up three organizers; pickets had been slugged. Massed in the street between the towering loft buildings on West 35th Street (called "Chinatown" from the days when "coolie wages" were paid there by the makers of low-priced dresses), 25,000 union dressmakers listened one day as their leaders issued a warning to the remaining unorganized employers: the union would not tolerate the return of gangsters like the late Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter and Jacob...
...Andover beat Tilton, 5 to 2, in its last outing on Wednesday. The freshmen recovered from a two-game losing streak the same day, pounding Leicester...
...Cadets have been sporadically dangerous this year, winning only one EIBL game in five starts. They often outhit their opponents but their fielding has been sub-par. Every once in a while, however, they will explode for a large number of runs. They beat Yale, 13 to 4, and scored nine against Dartmouth and 10, 13, and 11 in three other games. Coach Paul Amen's soldiers forced Cornell and the Brooklyn Dodgers into extra innings before dropping one-run decisions...