Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Mercier, who began as a transit-man and roadmaster's clerk, Russell trained as an engineer at Stanford, started with Southern Pacific as timekeeper for a road gang, rose to assistant foreman of a section gang. As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant division superintendent to boss of the Los Angeles division in 1939. There he caught the eye of Mercier, who made him his assistant in 1941, groomed...
Nightclub singer Lizabeth Scott is the same as ever. She serves the function of squealing to the cops, which in turn helps an over-eager young policeman to trap and shoot two of Ryan's gang, which in turn makes Ryan shoot the eager cop. This enables Mitchum to lock...
...player--accompanied their progress with some thumpy renditions of familiar tunes. One of the selections was the "Donkey Serenade," but the Republicans did not seem to notice this. But at 7:14 the head table of dignatories began to march in, and to the tune of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," Charles Francis Adams, Sinclair Weeks, Senators Saltonstall and Lodge, Robert Montgomery, and Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, among others, took their places...
Ford's discovery of wood alcohol in the bodies of two Boston men confirmed police suspicious that the deaths were caused by poison liquor distributed through a gang of Revere moonshiners. There is still 100 gallons of the alcohol unaccounted for while the number of victims has reached eight. A few weeks 220, a similar situation resulted in over 25 deaths in Atlanta, Georgia...
...contract was the occasion for the-strike, not the cause. Longshoremen had seized an opportunity to revolt against the whole racket-ridden system which surrounds them: the humiliating daily "shape-up" at which they line up for jobs, the gangsters, chiselers and thieves who infest the waterfront as work gang leaders and hiring bosses, forcing longshoremen to pay for the right to work. For years this situation has been tolerated by Union President Ryan, by the New York Shipping Association, which represents the management of 161 steamship lines and other port industries, and by the New York police...