Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henderson informed police that he had been followed along Memorial Drive by a gang of 12 youths, who heckled him and his College affiliation before they seized him, and took his wallet, which contained a small amount of cash and numerous personal papers. He was later treated for cuts and bruises on the face...
...sooner was he sworn in as gang boss, with the hereditary title of "Matsuzakaya the Fifth," than Matsuda began cleaning house. He reorganized the tekiyas into a modern, businesslike corporation (the Matsuda Carrying Trade Co.), ordered his followers to wear Western-style sack suits instead of the traditional drab blue coat and tight white shorts. He also talked about taking the "black" out of the black market, commanded the adoption of "legitimate, ethical and businesslike" methods, prohibited Matsuzakayans from dealing in stolen goods...
Going straight did not appeal to some of the henchmen. They renounced the blood brotherhood pledge and left the gang in discontent. Last week pasty-faced Tomiji Nodera, who, though an accountant, could not stomach the new business ethics, visited the boss, pulled a German Mauser pistol and fired three times. Matsuda slumped dead in his chair...
Next day loyal Matsuzakayans closed their stalls for a half day's mourning, gathered to elect their dead leader's attractive widow, Yoshiko, as "Matsuzakaya the Sixth." In her flower-banked office, the first woman gang chieftain in Tokyo history planned a memorial service that promised to be "the biggest thing the tekiyas have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with...
...whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...