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hoodlumism

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A day after denying that such organized hoodlumism existed in Boston, Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks.

Racketeering in labor was simultaneously attacked when New York's Doctor-Senator Copeland left Washington with a committee to investigate hoodlumism in New York, Detroit, Chicago.

The high school in Gifu expelled 35 students for theft, hoodlumism and intimidation of students and teachers.

House of Representatives was the year's most intensely debated legislation: a labor bill aimed at ending the racketeering and hoodlumism that had become all too evident in some unions, especially the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters under its president, James Riddle Hoffa.

In a production gagged to the teeth, liberty lurches into license, license swaggers into outrageousness, and farce reasserts its ancient claim to a kind of benevolent hoodlumism.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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