Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonanza. Time and circumstances, he found, had worked some major changes on the face of U.S. gangland. Big-scale prostitution, the big pre-World War I racket, had been spoiled by the Mann Act. Repeal had put an end to the era of bootleggers, gang war and magnificent funerals. The U.S.'s fast-buck boys had moved in on a bonanza which proved richer than their wildest dreams. The new bonanza: big-time gambling, organized on a big-time scale...
...turns up in the west of Ireland just as a great landlord is about to seize a pretty young peasant girl for his pleasure. When the girl (Maggie McNamara) pretends love for the brawny shillelagh-swinging Dowd (Walter Macken), he cheerfully whips the landlord's entire press gang. But though Dowd eventually wins the girl's love, the landlord schemes so that he does not win the girl...
Brown's championship sextet registered its fifteenth victory of the season and second in a row over Cooney Weiland's revised hockey team, 5 to 1, last night at the Arena. In a rough, dirty game marked by 19 penalties, the Bruins dominated the play with their gang-rush style, keeping the puck in the Harvard zone most of the time...
...Like gang wars, teen-age dope addiction still seems to be a big-city phenomenon. And police and lawmakers have begun to crack down. In the last few months, both New York and Chicago have put more & more policemen to tracking down peddlers. New York schoolteachers have been instructed to look for symptoms of addiction, such as yawning, nausea, watery eyes, among their students. Even more to the point: a bill currently before the Illinois legislature which could send dope peddlers to prison for life for selling narcotics to a minor...
...Great Missouri Raid (Paramount) is a pseudohistorical western that whitewashes the Jesse James gang in bright Technicolor. An earlier version of the desperado's career, 1939's moneymaking Jesse James, depicted the James boys as victims of a land-grabbing railroad which forced them into a life of crime. In the new vogue for brewing westerns out of the backwash of the Civil War, they become Southern martyrs hounded by a vindictive Yankee major...