Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Switches & Splits. The confessions of truckling cowardice that were implicit in the new Khrushchev-Molotov-Bulganin line might do for the inner Kremlin gang. But it was not so easy for Communist leaders outside Russia to explain their own participation in the great deceit. The debunking of Stalin hit world Communists with a deeper shock than anything since Stalin's 1939 pact with Hitler. In what may be the first of many satellite reverberations, the boss of Hungary's Communist Party has admitted that his regime sent five top Reds wrongly to death in 1949 (see below...
...Gang. There are few U.S. companies of comparable size and complexity that are still run by one man, as Reed runs American Express. From the company's managers all over the world, cables and detailed monthly reports all flow directly to Reed in New York. He is constantly mulling ways to expand and improve the company's business. He seldom goes to bed before 2 a.m., frequently wakes up in the night to scrawl notes on the pad beside...
...honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce settles over Tuxahatchie County, with virtue still walking barefoot on the hills, and evil, condemned only by the knowledge...
...clean up the New York waterfront. In 1953 the A.F.L. expelled the I.L.A. for flagrant and persistent corruption, and it was the teamsters' union that sparked the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, a new, "clean" pier union. Now, if Hoffa succeeded in switching teamster support back to the gang-bossed I.L.A., the I.B.L. was almost certainly doomed to extinction. Determined to prevent this, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany promptly warned the teamsters that he would take "whatever action the circumstances warrant...
...Cumming's story about a man named Storey does not treat a very complex individual--the complexity is rather in Storey's situation as the white boss of a gang of Negro cottonpickers--yet the story itself is constructed with intricacy and maturity. By focussing on the irrational behavior of a feeble-minded, white cottonpicker, Cumming effectively portrays Storey's own loss of control with amazing brevity. Since the idot's situation can be stated more clearly and concisely than that of the maturer man, it serves as an excellent economizing device, while allowing the author to indulge his taste...