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...into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million dollars...
Judge Pailhé read on: "The Jewish gang behind the White House. . . . The English, who, Bible in hand, seek to destroy Europe. . . . Allied airmen who are nothing but flying assassins...
...Antonio's South Side, near where the middle-class residential district shades off into slums, a juvenile gang fight raged. The "Harlandale Gang" had run afoul of the "South Sans." A band of "Tex-Mexes" (boys of Mexican ancestry) poured in from the West Side to join the battle. The police alarm was serious. In war-booming San Antonio juvenile crimes had rocketed in a single year from 10% to 50% of the cases on the police docket, and there had been three juvenile murders. When the battle was over property had been damaged and no less than...
Cried Wells: "Winston Churchill, the present would-be British Führer, is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventure and opportunities of British political life. . . . When the British people were blistered with humiliation by the currish policy of the old Conservative gang in power, the pugnacity of Winston brought him to the fore. The country meant to fight and he delighted in fighting. For want of a better, he became the symbol of our national will for conflict, a role he has now outlived...
...twice in the Battle of Britain, once in London, where a land mine exploded only 75 feet away - again in the Good Friday raid on Coventry. At home and abroad he was 13 years on the staff of the New York Times, and perhaps you read his book on Gang Rule in New York, which the Times called "an eye-popping Only Yesterday of crime and politics in a flagrant...