Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flashed to the far corners of the globe in precedence to all else of importance happening at Harvard. This afternoon a stalwart band of Crimson editors sally forth armed with bats, balls, pop bottles and one used catcher's mitt to meet a motley crew collected from the idle gang around the Lampoon Building in the year's most exciting baseball game...
...revealed Alvin Karpis had been fishing and hunting on the Gulf and in Florida for several months, had moved to New Orleans several weeks ago. His face had been lifted, his fingertips mutilated. The G-Men said that Karpis had paid a Chicago gang doctor $350 for the face-lifting operation, that the job was not worth...
...Colosimo was shot dead in his Chicago restaurant. Some accused Torrio, others Capone. At any rate Torrio quickly stepped into the dead man's shoes, kept Capone as his right-hand man. When Dion O'Banion's North Side gang hijacked too much of their beer in 1924; O'Banion was neatly drilled in his Chicago flower shop. Torrio attended the $50,000 funeral with Capone, looked at his dead foe, murmured disconsolately: "Poor Dion." But the floral wreath he sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans...
...well-irrigated, industrial nation with a $31,000,000 Government surplus, an important business in oranges and a good supply of cheap Arab labor. Britain's mandate is also supposed to protect Arab rights, but two years ago young Arabs took matters into their own hands, organized terrorist gangs, began robbing and killing Jews. Fortnight ago one such gang held up a Jewish motorcade on a highway outside Jerusalem, killed a Jew. At the victim's funeral, orthodox and passionate, rioting Jews clashed with British police...
...Before 150 undergraduates in the courtyard of Yale's Pierson College appeared a small, mild-faced Negro. .No Yaleman but a collectivist who was sentenced to a Georgia chain gang three years ago for possessing radical literature and is now out on bail, Communist Angelo Herndon gravely announced: "We love our country so much that we are not willing to see her plunge into another...