Word: gang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started out shortly after his graduation to race J. M. Plumer '21, a classmate, around the world. In China during a shipping strike he was in charge of a gang of coolies and had other strange jobs...
...that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers. He worked on the beach, in the hospitals, and as a newspaper correspondent...
...ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John...
...Prohibition Association is making, or plans to make, similar campaigns in other states, and then burst a mass of statistics upon the country. Are professional agitators and faked figures to invade even the academic world for the benefit of Wayne B. Wheeler's pocketbook or the purses of his gang...
Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called...