Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dutch & Lucky. On the New Deal tide Jimmy rode high. His pockets crammed with money, he fronted for an army commanded by a young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz...
...charges that began to cascade upon his empire, mostly because nobody could prove them. He cautiously avoided bank accounts and investments, was always careful not to record such income as the $200,000 or so received from Schultz. Even when Dutch was bumped off in Newark by a rival mob, Jimmy's power was such that he continued to operate his special political services for Schultz's successors. Then, in 1937, a prosecutor named Thomas E. Dewey rounded up three talkative Schultz mobsters. With their testimony, Tom Dewey nailed Hines on 13 counts involving him with the numbers...
...chewed to death at last by its chain-gang bloodhounds. More intensively-amid daffy old ladies, a nymphomaniac outcast, knife-flashing bullies and gun-toting racists-it tells of the young man's affair with a woman whose Italian father was burned to death by a mob, and whose husband helped burn him. Symbols of lostness and loneliness, they become victims of corruption and brutality...
...Bystander. In accordance with the vague diplomatic "assumptions" by which the U.N. had tried to paper over the Israeli withdrawal from Egypt and Gaza, the U.N. Emergency Force early last week drew up plans to run the Gaza Strip for a long "interim period." But one morning a mob of 300 Palestinian Arabs, shouting "Long Live Nasser" and waving slick-sloganed placards that could hardly have been printed in Gaza, began battering in the doors of the UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear...
...separate the men from the boys; the reader may find difficulty in separating the men from the animals. Tony stakes out free land (having deceived a government surveyors' party as to just where water was available), steals cleanskins (i.e., unbranded cattle), lives like a patriarch among a mob of women, and toward the end of a misspent life is so rich that he threatens to entertain a visiting royal duke, presumably the Duke of York, later King George VI of Britain. For years Tony had lived in a shack and never learned to read, but he employed...