Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlighted, strung with two naked copper wires.* The line was raised between nine-thirty and two the night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co. some time ago. No one formally notified the airport of the obstruction, but the gang of nine men on the job worked under bright headlights from four trucks only 150 yds. from the airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action...
...behalf of an aged and indignant client, Mrs. Eva J. Hurst, we have been searching unsuccessfully for two years to find one Nat Lichtblau who it appears was one of a gang of high-pressure salesmen who secured by misrepresentation our client's last $12,000 worth of securities." Senator Wheeler suggested that Lawyer Washburn ask the Democratic National Committee about Lichtblau's "whereabouts and antecedents...
...Muni, he made The Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie, Bordertown, Black Fury, Dr. Socrates, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Good Earth. Pasteur won him the Academy prize and furnished a precedent for Zola. Muni now gets about $100,000 a picture...
...James Cunningham whose extradition was recently refused because of a "sense of humanity." Fed up with such melodramatic refusals of extradition as that by New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in 1932 in the case of Robert Elliott Moore (I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang), Georgia prepared for a legal roundup. "We are going after any others the other States may be holding from us," vowed Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers...
...staged at exercise time in the yard by convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies are criticized by the prison board. He wins a tentative endorsement of his method of selecting men for work on the road gang but is faced with dismissal when Sailor (Joseph Sawyer) and Kennedy, with the help of Sailor's moll and an old Lincoln touring car, jump the road gang, kidnapping Druggin. What follows is the year's most exciting cops and convicts chase, involving the usual race with...