Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain-born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...
...Truman was mighty glad; there was no one he would rather have around than George. Congress was gone and there would be a lull, but he needed all the help, advice and laughs he could get. So it was good to have George back with the rest of the "gang...
...Prompters. In the White House the word "gang" does not necessarily have a sinister connotation. Most U.S. Presidents have had their gangs, some big, some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang...
...Gang. Harry Truman's gang is large, loose-knit, amiable and loyal. Some members, like Judge Samuel Rosenman, serve only part time. Others serve as specialists, like David K. Niles, a New-Dealing Bostonian inherited from F.D.R., who advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what...
...kitchen cabinets and brain trusts, the membership in Harry Truman's gang shifts and changes. Long forgotten are burly, apple-cheeked Hugh Fulton who talked too much, and Omaha insurance man Ed McKim, who served with Harry Truman in the field artillery but was deemed dated for modern Washington. Wrinkled old Admiral Leahy no longer sees the President regularly. Even National Chairman Bob Hannegan has had to take a seat somewhat to the rear...