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  • These rowdies were "Hoodlums;" and it is the Hoodlums chiefly who clamor about the Chinese, and who are "ruined by Chinese cheap labor."

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • "Hoodlums," a Citizen-Times editorial recounted, "who of late had been confining their activities to buzz-bombing by automobile, let loose firecrackers on the dance floor."

    CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News 2010

  • A piece he wrote for Vanity Fair eleven years ago, Hipsters and Hoodlums, was the impetus for this new book, published by the masterminds behind Norton Records in their new and fabulously groovy imprint, Kicks Books.

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • A piece he wrote for Vanity Fair eleven years ago, Hipsters and Hoodlums, was the impetus for this new book, published by the masterminds behind Norton Records in their new and fabulously groovy imprint, Kicks Books.

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • They give the apperance of "radical Hoodlums" in order to get their way.

    Boehner: Wilson resolution a 'diversion' 2009

  • A piece he wrote for Vanity Fair eleven years ago, Hipsters and Hoodlums, was the impetus for this new book, published by the masterminds behind Norton Records in their new and fabulously groovy imprint, Kicks Books.

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • A piece he wrote for Vanity Fair eleven years ago, Hipsters and Hoodlums, was the impetus for this new book, published by the masterminds behind Norton Records in their new and fabulously groovy imprint, Kicks Books.

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • A piece he wrote for Vanity Fair eleven years ago, Hipsters and Hoodlums, was the impetus for this new book, published by the masterminds behind Norton Records in their new and fabulously groovy imprint, Kicks Books.

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • In Philadelphia, conflicts between rival gangs were arbitrated in a netherworld one of the local papers called “Racketville,” a sort of parallel City of Brotherly Hoodlums with its own mob-selected judges, lawyers, and others “rendering decisions which its vassals must obey without question.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • In Philadelphia, conflicts between rival gangs were arbitrated in a netherworld one of the local papers called “Racketville,” a sort of parallel City of Brotherly Hoodlums with its own mob-selected judges, lawyers, and others “rendering decisions which its vassals must obey without question.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

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