Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Pailhé read on: "The Jewish gang behind the White House. . . . The English, who, Bible in hand, seek to destroy Europe. . . . Allied airmen who are nothing but flying assassins...
...Antonio's South Side, near where the middle-class residential district shades off into slums, a juvenile gang fight raged. The "Harlandale Gang" had run afoul of the "South Sans." A band of "Tex-Mexes" (boys of Mexican ancestry) poured in from the West Side to join the battle. The police alarm was serious. In war-booming San Antonio juvenile crimes had rocketed in a single year from 10% to 50% of the cases on the police docket, and there had been three juvenile murders. When the battle was over property had been damaged and no less than...
Investigator William F. ("Bill") Brogan, tall, lean ex-rancher and newspaperman, well remembers the look of the adolescents who were hauled in after the three-sided gang-fight. "They were mighty rough kids. Under the usual procedure, I would have . . . placed them in the county jail. . . but I herded the 14 boys into the chief's office and locked myself up in there with them, removed my pistol and coat. In the bunch I had two rough gang leaders. They had attained leadership with their fists and could have torn me to pieces. One was of Mexican descent...
Bill Brogan told them that their gangs were fighting for Tojo and Hitler. "Boys," he said, "let's fight this war, not each other." He made the rival gang leaders shake hands. "We are going to get into one big mob," he said...
...became San Antonio's now-flourishing "Junior Deputies of America," a law-abiding & law-enforcing corps of more than 800 kids aged 14 to 18. Brogan developed his first leaders from the rival gang captains, reconciled at the first meeting to each other and to the law. The first chief is now at an Army Air Corps gunners' school, his successor in the Navy at San Diego. From their office in Bexar County court house, the Junior Deputies have...