Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longshoremen have shown no inclination to follow suit. The issue is vitally important to them because of the shrinking base of stevedore jobs caused by containerization. A 30-ton prepacked container can be hoisted onto a ship by three longshoremen in about two minutes; it used to take a gang of 18 men an hour to load the same amount of cargo...
...practical assistance from Local 210. At the suggestion of Mafiosi already on the payroll, the contractor hired a "job coordinator"-Magaddino Capo John Cammillieri. In his sharply tailored suits, pointed-toe shoes, dark glasses and pinkie ring, Cammillieri was an unlikely looking straw boss for an office building construction gang. But his effect on the work force was immediate and far-reaching. For $7.10 an hour, Cammillieri did with one memo what Bateson foremen had tried to do for two years: he got the laborers to work...
Many of the judges at Atlanta went a step further. They argued in some cases a black defendant needs the sensitivity of a black judge to get a fair trial. "If I get a probation report that a fellow has been in a gang," said U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of Philadelphia, "I may know something that the white judge doesn't: that almost everybody in that neighborhood has to be in a gang to get to school safely." The black jurists feel that they must educate their white counterparts in such matters...
...Hampton had been a student the semester before he was killed in a police shootout. This year, Hurst called attention to the high mortality among black youths in Chicago by awarding a posthumous degree to Reginald Knox, one of his students who was killed, apparently by members of a gang he refused to join. Says Hurst: "In the past, the idea was for a black person to go to a collegiate institution and try to become white in as many ways as possible, then hope to be accepted by the white community. We have begun to redesign things...
...word Mafia isn't used much any more. And I never heard the term Cosa Nostra until Joe Valachi* used it. But there is one big gang that runs organized crime in this country. It has many different names-the Organization, the Syndicate. We generally call it the Mob. New young people who become members call it the Outfit...