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...order is inevitably made for disciplined racketeering. One stevedoring superintendent testified that the Grace Line paid off Timmy O'Mara, a Sing Sing alumnus (burglary) and boss loader on the North River, by carrying him on the payroll under a phony name. O'Mara never did a lick of work, but he netted $24,130 in five years. Portly, white-haired Jones Devlin, the general manager of the powerful U.S. Lines (S.S. United States, America), related with bored weariness how the U.S. Lines abandoned one of its midtown piers rather than try to cope with organized pilferage. Asked...
...they found out that the Irish are "highly humorous" and, to be sure, that is a very mild way of putting it. Also they discovered that the Irish are "volatile"--which is a formal way of saying they can lick any man who says they...
...Rocky's early road was not all rocks. He was as brilliant in sports as he was dull in books, and sports mean more to most boys. He could lick anybody near his size, yet he-never suffered the loneliness and frustration of being a bully. Secure in the love of his family and friends, he grew up modest and gentle. "Rocco," his warmly matriarchal mother sighs, "was the best-natured child you ever see. He always want to be friendly. Always want...
Canada's armed services are faced with an alarming problem they have yet to lick: sabotage. Last year, the main bearings of the nation's only aircraft carrier, the Magnificent, were filled with sand and brass filings; last April, a bomber pilot found a Greenwood choking wad of cleansing tissue in the tube of his oxygen mask. Last week the hand of the saboteur struck again, this time at the Royal Canadian Air Force's big Greenwood base in Nova Scotia. Soon after taking off, the pilot of a Lancaster bomber ran into trouble. As he sought...
...After four hours, the meeting ended without a settlement. Before the C.I.O.'s Wage-Policy Committee this week, President Philip Murray defiantly announced that the steel industry had repudiated a strike settlement he had worked out with Bethlehem Steel in June. Cried he: "Nobody is big enough to lick you." The C.I.O., Murray later explained, would not settle for anything less than a full union shop. The committee promptly voted unanimously to continue the steel strike. "The unholy alliance of steel companies wants total surrender by the union ... [We] pledge to carry on this struggle...