Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean and, at some risk, a long autobiographical letter written by Heathcliff himself. Bereft because he knows Catherine will never marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross the square and start on Bedford House, then begin elsewhere, until I had demolished every great house in London; after which I'd unleash myself on the provinces and not quit till...
Much of the mob activity involves unions. Hotel and restaurant-employees are being recruited by Teamsters locals from Philadelphia and northern New Jersey with the blessing of Mafia Muscleman Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, who operates out of semiretirement in Hallandale, Fla. The Association of Public and Private Labor Employees, known as Apple and run by New York Mafiosi, has been organizing employees of Atlantic City's private detective and guard services. A Cincinnati union with ties to Chicago Mafia Boss Anthony ("Big Tuna") Accardo has been signing up bartenders...
Warns Atlantic County Prosecutor Richard Williams about the mob-dominated unions: "They can control who works. It's a source of tremendous unchecked power that, in a town like this, can control the government...
Thus pressure is growing for the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to move faster, before any investors go bust, or turn to mob moneylenders. The danger, of course, is that a combination of greed and need will overcome caution and good intentions, making it easier for the underworld to penetrate legal gambling in Atlantic City...
...sort of a welfare state," says silvery Erwin Can-ham, the Marianas' resident commissioner and a former editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who will return to the U.S. later this month. "If I tried to eliminate the free surplus commodities, I'd have a lynch mob down here...