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...easy job to understand the Harlow system, let alone teach it, But the former Freshman and Jayvee coach proceeded to teach it to two of his new but experienced helpers, who couldn't believe it when they saw it on paper, and then went ahead to make a gang of first-year men and now men feel at home in a few weeks, but that the system ordinarily takes three years to put across...
Back to '28. The Republican swing hit hard. Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan. Sole potent Democratic city machine left, outside the Solid South, is Ed Kelly's Chicago juggernaut...
...voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked right up to my chin. I guess...
...nomination for Governor be held in abeyance until after the nomination of a candidate for second place on the slate. Worried by the thought that Cross might not run if his wishes were flouted, the Old Guard politicians made haste to drop Leary. Some years later the "Waterbury gang" was convicted under the Corrupt Practices Act, which proved that Cross, the "innocent" from the Yale campus, had had his political nose to windward...
That covered plenty of ground. If even approximately true, it indicated that almost everyone in Spain was in a mood to gang up on the Falange and Francisco Franco. Observers recently returned from Madrid estimated that some 85% of all Spaniards now opposed the Government...