Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four and a half years on the air, the CBS Gang Busters stood off many an attack. When parent-teacher associations complained that their re-enactment of underworld derring-do was bad stuff for children, Gang Busters pointed out that the little ones couldn't learn too early that crime does not pay. When Probation Officer Frank Xavier Reller of St. Louis denounced the program for inspiring juveniles to concoct all kinds of deviltry, Gang Busters boasted that over a hundred mobsters had been brought to justice through aerial tips that they supplied...
...last week Gang Busters faced a foe that got them down. Convinced that Gang Busters might be catching crooks but were not selling Cue, the liquid dentifrice, Benton & Bowles, acting for Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, decided not to renew their contract. Still shooting, still with their boots on, Gang Busters vacated the air waves, waited for Phillips H. Lord, their entrepreneur, to send them out on a new crusade...
...song-writing contest and in written by two residents on San Quentin Penitentiary... Heard Ovie Alston's band playing at an obscure ballroom a short time ago in New York, and they certainly, deserve better work. Most of the band being out of the old Claude Hopkins gang, they play fine stuff, especially the tenor man, first trumpet man Alston, and the second trumpet. Both the latter, by the way, have something unusual-clear easy tones and unhurried, subtle styles...
...troupe to throw up jobs as house painters, waiters, butlers and cooks, vacate their berths on WPA. To date the choristers have given 61 concerts at up to $1,500 an appearance, traveling in their own $19,000 bus, from which they once serenaded an astonished chain gang in Georgia. Last week Messrs. Settle & Kramer announced what they were going to do with their net at the end of this season and henceforth. They will provide 20 college scholarships for colored youngsters all over the U. S., to be competed for by examinations in high schools. They also announced that...
...fair-minded majority in the California gold camps and elsewhere on our borders that they organized for a job no one could do alone, equally obvious to us by this time, it seems to me, should be the necessity for the nations controlled by fairdealing people to gang up on the international lawbreakers and enforce a peace we can all work under...