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Three well organized gangs of bootleggers are said to control the landing and distributing business in Highlands, one gang from Newark, one from Trenton, one from Scranton...
...speaker stated that on one day, supposed to be a holiday, the I. W. W. gang was ordered to unload some coal. When they refused point blank to work while the other prisoners were enjoying a moving picture they were placed in isolation, put on bread and water, and strung up by the hands for fourteen days for eight hours a day. On the eight day they were beaten with baseball bats by some prisoners who had been given long sentences for murder and other crimes, and who beat the men with the hope of getting a commutation...
...familiar and less familiar. The new Converse song, "Harvard, Sovereign Mother", is a feature of this part of the book. In the remainder of the volume are fifty or more songs of various types, ranging from the splendid "Prayer of Thanksgiving" at one extreme to "Hall, Hall, the Gang's All Here!" at the other...
...every age vandalism has been regarded with contempt by the overwhelming majority of civilized society. The seriousness of the offence varies from the sack of a city to the mischievousness of a gang of small boys. Obviously, to hang an urchin for smashing a street lamp is as out of proportion as to give half a dozen lashes to a soldier who has burnt down a house and murdered the owners...
...dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes! They gang in stirks and come out asses...