Word: hoodlum
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...ORGANIZER. In this vivid, beautiful account of a 19th century strike in Turin, Marcello Mastroianni fascinatingly portrays the early labor leader as a kind of holy hoodlum...
...shippers; opponents of the S.I.U. and members of rival seamen's unions were endlessly threatened, beaten and shot at. Banks ran up extravagant expense accounts, got a new white Cadillac from the union yearly. In 1960 the Canadian Labor Congress expelled the 15,000-man S.I.U. as a "hoodlum empire," set up a competing maritime union. Shrugged Banks: "I've had to fight finks and scabs and look out for my boys. Sometimes I haven't had time to be a gentleman...
...Chicago's West Side, never finished high school. He liked to think that he had connections with racketeers-the classy kind. He affected the sharp dress of the big-time mobsters, the white-on-white shirts and ties, pearl-grey hats, phony diamond pinkie ring. He dropped hoodlum names like dandruff...
...Hoodlum Joe Valachi last week wound up his solo performance before the McClellan Committee in Washington, was quickly hustled off to his maximum-security cell to rest his throat until his instructive services are needed again...
...Meredith and Dowager Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who chirped: "I wanted to get the smell of it." Even Caroline Kennedy's White House kindergarten teacher was there. The Valachi hearings were plainly the place to go in Washington last week. But they were still a pretty shabby show, with Hoodlum Joseph Valachi, 60, being fawned over merely because he had turned squealer...