Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city streets, Joe got along better. When his gang started something, Joe finished it. One day in 1931, one of his pals persuaded him to go to the Brewster St. Recreation Center (a settlement house in the heart of Detroit's "black bottom"). There Joe learned to box. At first he disliked it, preferred handball. But within a year, Joe Barrow was the best fighter in the Center, won a silver cup as the most outstanding novice light-heavyweight in Detroit's Golden Gloves tournament...
...loyalty to his old gang was a rock on which his marriage nearly foundered. To please one pal, he sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
...biggest press news in Washington last week was that the "White House gang" - the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President - was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed...
...they have given him loyalty and admiration interrupted by only a few brief peeves. Long ago most of their editors and publishers began to feel that the President was less than all-knowing, all-wise and beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...
They were there, as their expense accounts showed, but otherwise it was an unkind and entirely unwarranted dig. Perhaps the White House gang would forget it in time, but they were powerfully disillusioned. Last week most of them felt that it was the end of a beautiful friendship. If so, it betokened more than that: the beginning of a new era in White House press relations...