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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back country, the Johnson City Windmill (named for Lyndon's home town) wowed the citizenry. Campaign workers raced ahead in cars to meeting places, strewing literature along the way. Johnson hovered over small towns, urging people to follow him. Over Forney he cried: "How's the gang in Adams' drugstore?" In Omaha he took Mayor Jack Vaughn, a young exmarine, up for a ride, gave him a chance to make a political speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Hello, Down There | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Forty-seven-year-old Mickey Marcus had done well as soldier and lawyer. After the military academy and a spell with the regulars, he studied law, became a gang-busting assistant U.S. district attorney in Manhattan, later commissioner of correction in charge of New York City prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Mr. Stone | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...Louis last month, with the Professional Golfers' Association championship in his grasp, Ben Hogan found the grind just about too hard to take. "I want to die an old man, not a young one," he told reporters. Every golfer in the big time-a businesslike gang that lives a life of tense desperation from hole to hole and tourney to tourney-knew just how he felt. The game had changed from the day of the great Walter Hagen, when a pro played in about 15 tournaments a year. Now it is a year-round business, in which only half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down Hogan's Alley | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Copians, Slicksters, Buccaneers, Spanish Dukes, Irish Dukes, Sabers, Royalistics, Imperial Lords, Fangwoods, Cobras, Mysterious Five, Mutineers, Bachelors, Turks, Olsen Gang, Egan's Rats, Frenchmen, Over Dukes, Walkie Talkies, Socialistics, Comets, Redskins, Bowery Bums, Shamrocks, Commanches, Clashers, Bucks, Aggies, Forty Thieves, Rapiers, Red Devils, Lisbons, Champs, Trojans, Coriettes, Tiny Tims, Dragons, Jackson Knights, Vladecks, Bowery Boys, Braves, Garfield Boys, Navy Street Boys, Sand Street Boys, Red Hook Boys, Jolly Stompers, Redskin Roamers, Coney Island Boys, Beavers, Bishops, South Brooklyn Boys, Avon Dukes, Chancellors, Penguins, Robins, Nits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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