Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "though highly paid by British standards," manage to get by only if they "have made themselves 'interesting' to the boss, or have found sugar-daddies to support them." Money-mad males survive by corruption. "Most of America's metropolitan areas are controlled by grafters and gangster elements," added Coulter, who in his seven years in the U.S. has done most of his traveling as a New Jersey-Manhattan commuter. Before taking a driver's test in New York, he related, he was assured that he would never pass "unless you 'accidentally' leave...
...first time that a Latin American dictator had struck at Jules Dubois. Dubbed the "No.1 Gangster of U.S. Journalism" by Perón's kept press, Jules Dubois, 47. is a shrewd, belligerently honest reporter of the old school who has been pistol-whipped, jailed and shot at in the course of covering revolutions in ten-Latin American countries. During Costa Rica's 1948 revolt against its pro-Communist government, six Red goons worked Dubois over with rifle butts. A month later, while covering a revolution in Colombia, Dubois phoned a blow-by-blow story to the Trib...
...Hard Way. "No need to be squeamish," urged London's conservative Time & Tide. "He is a gangster dictator and must in the end be dealt with as such." Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, heading for the Gaza frontier, threatened a renewal of war. In a Chicago speech, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington declared: "There will be no real peace in the Middle East until Nasser is out of power...
...night Riggan was relaxing in his apartment on Peel Street, in a gracious midtown sector of the city, after a hard week's work on a story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that...
...presidency not only would eliminate hard-feelings, but would make the club more stable. Look how long the Roman Republic lasted. Also, having two presidents, or perhaps as many as there are powerful candidates, would make gangster tactics like those used in 1954 unnecessary. Joseph Studholme, the club's office manager, was about to make an investigation of bogus membership cards distributed by one of the factions in that year's memorable ledger-stuffing maneuver. As he was leaving the club office three days before the election, the candidates for that year attacked him, wrested the sole official membership list...