Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Termini Imerese, Sicily, a strange legal case began ?the trial of the 153 members of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. It was strange because the prisoners were brought into court in iron-barred cages and arranged around the room like wild animals, guarded by a small army of colorfully uniformed Carabinieri with fixed bayonets...
...recalled that in June 1918 the Bolsheviki confiscated oil fields, refineries, machinery, stocks, assets and even the "trinkets and jewelry belonging to employes." Added he: " "Politically, this is called confiscation; practically, all these objects were stolen, not by representatives of the people, but by a gang who, by controlling the army, had usurped the power to do anything which would not have been tolerated otherwise...
Alone, we two--and perhaps the gang--and a nicely muffled brick...
Last week, Mr. Crissinger resigned as governor of the Federal Reserve Board. One of the few Harding appointees reappointed by President Coolidge, he was the last important member of the so-called "Ohio Gang"† and the last member, important, or unimportant, of the "Chain Gang" or the "Stunners" left in Washington. He explained to President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon that his resignation was in no way influenced by the controversy which the Federal Reserve Board had lately with its Chicago member bank, when Mr. Crissinger was charged with domineering because he cast a deciding vote to make the Chicago...
...called Ohio Gang originated with Ohio's "Big Four" politicians: Mark Hamia, J. B. Foraker, George B. Cox, Charles Dick. Later additions were Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, Warren G. Harding, Howard Mannington, Charles R. Forbes, Jesse Smith, E. Mont Reily, Daniel Richard Crissinger, George Busby Christian...