Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
...visiting illegal saloons, posing as a prohibition enforcement officer and extracting large bribes from the proprietors. When, after being twice arrested for this practice, he was held without bail, Ralph Richards made a proposal to law authorities. He would aid detectives to find the whereabouts of an alleged "gang" which had assisted him in his operations...
...Foolish policemen were satisfied when Ralph Richards promised to bring his cronies to an appointed meeting place for arrest. The police unleashed their captive and waited at the rendezvous, but Ralph Richards failed to make good his promise. Policemen did not know whether he had absconded alone, rejoined his "gang" or been murdered for treachery, by its members...
With an air of crying "Boo!" Sir William revealed that Scotland Yard had just rounded up a gang of Irish smugglers of arms, in London, and had traced banknotes found in their possession to "a Russian bank in this country...
...India Sir Henri has used gang tactics for abusing Standard Oil. His English Shell Transport relations have brought him British government aid. Indian duties against Standard oil are higher than against Royal Dutch-Shell...