Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soney will give out the slightest hint as to the progress of the case, they have switched their attention to different leads almost weekly. Descriptions of the getaway vehicle have varied from two cars to one truck. An attempt was made to link the robbery to everyone from a gang that robbed the Sturtevant plant in Readville, New York, to a prominent Boston bookie. Arrests have included a soldier in New York and a farmer in Stoughton...
...teeming tenements and slums, is what people mean by the phrase "juvenile delinquent." In a quiet Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joe tried to tell why he and his buddies talked tough, acted tough and got tough inside. Judge Samuel Leibowitz had asked Joe, leader of a South Brooklyn gang, if he had anything to say before sentence was passed on a buddy, Anthony
Scarpati, 17, who had shot and killed a member of a rival gang...
...Crazy Time." Each gang had a president, a vice president, a war counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...
...council social workers used the slow approach. They began by loafing near gang hangouts, gradually drawing the boys into conversation, playing the jukebox with them, letting them cadge occasional cigarettes. As distrust faded, the council men identified themselves, proved that they were not cops and not out to nag, report the gang members or break their gangs. On the contrary, they were available for advice, an occasional two-bit loan, or help in arranging for the use of a gym or a place to hold a dance...