Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doletsky and his Tass gang, according to The Ural Worker, tried to undermine the foundations of Soviet achievement by putting on Tass wires invariably rosy accounts of successes of the Five-Year Plans and achievements of leading Bolsheviks. "Instead of unmasking the shortcomings of Sverdlovsk industry and the mismanagement of collective farms," declared The Ural Worker, "Tass published a flowery story about the arrival of spring. . . . Thus Doletsky and his accomplices carried out the dictates of Fascist bosses...
...cars were going fast. One of the gang, John Sherry, was killed. Two of the others, Roger Norton and William Carleton, were caught and jailed. The fourth man disappeared. Soon after the robbery Bull Moore ceased to be seen in upper New York State and the police began to look...
...Ohio-Three confessed dynamiters were arrested at Warren. A C.I.Organizer called Gus Hall (real name: Arvo G. Halberg) who ran for councilman in Youngstown two years ago on the Communist ticket, was sought all week by police as the "brains" of a gang of wreckers. Blasts in Canton had ruptured a water main and wrecked a culvert. Into the Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened...
...personal newsorgan Popolo d'ltalia. When this came out it definitely rejected on behalf of II Duce any proposal that Italians fighting with the Rightists in Spain should be withdrawn and asked with reference to volunteers fighting with the Spanish Leftists: "Who has sufficient power to recall that gang of Italian, French, Swiss and Jewish countryless ex-patriates...
...Francisco, followed him to New Orleans. By the time she had made her first swing around the country she knew all the ropes. In Chicago, which she calls the woman hobo centre, she worked a while for a celebrated abortionist; later traveled for some months with a gang of shoplifters...