Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa, who continually associated with and employed a gang of ex-convicts, masterminded the chartering of seven phony New York City locals, "knowing these locals to be racket-controlled and devoid of membership." He secretly joined with Johnny Dio, the notorious racketeer, in conspiring to get derogatory information to be used against New York Teamster Vice President Tom Hickey, tried to get Dio a Teamster charter for his taxicab local, even though the legitimate Teamster organization under Hickey was trying to organize the cab drivers...
...Where did he get the money? "Oh," said the little priest airily, "our good Lord helps me." This was not quite the whole truth, the crestfallen parishioners of Giadinh learned last week. Rounded up in a Saigon police court along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks at night, driven into a palm-thatched workshop in the churchyard, repainted and turned over, complete with forged license plates and bills...
...game. Aroused by the Jesters' protests, the Kings decided to whip a few Jesters. Mike Farmer and Roger McShane were the first boys that the Knights met on their caper-although, as far as the police could learn, neither victim was a member of any gang...
...Thanks a Lot." Rounding up more than 40 known teen-age gang members in the area, the cops sifted their way down to the suspect 17. Nine of the gang, 15 to 18 years old, were held for murder. The remaining eight, all under 15, were charged with juvenile delinquency. One of these, a 14-year-old boy known to his pals as "The Little King," proudly bragged to detectives that he plunged his knife deep into Farmer's back "to get the feeling of a knife going through bone." As he withdrew his blade, he told the dying...
...week's end city police strengthened their coverage of uptown gang areas. But their blanket was too thin. One night, only 73 hours after the Farmer attack, 18-year-old George Marshall, standing on a Bronx street with a friend, was set upon by five boys and two girls, stabbed to death as his companion ran for help...