Word: anastasia
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...Jarka Corp. wanted to work a new pier. The word was passed for Jarka to hire a pier boss named Tony Anastasio, brother of Murder, Inc.'s lord high executioner, Albert Anastasia.* When Jarka refused to stand for the shakedown, Anastasio's other piers went on strike. Jarka complained to Joe Ryan, and Joe blandly "recommended" Anastasio. Anastasio was hired...
...debut to better advantage. His role was that of an upright judge in a grim, real-life morality play. On one hand, aggressive little Rudolph Halley shrilled and barked at the forces of evil. On the other, Costello (only his hands), Greasy Thumb Guzik, Jim Moran and Anthony Anastasia defended themselves with all the genius and resources of Satan. In the background, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey wailed like a Greek chorus singing its lines from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. And right in the middle of the scene, calm, judicial, and unruffled, Estes Kefauver meted out justice...
...district attorney reopened the ten-year-old case of Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles; there was even talk of exhuming Reles' corpse. His mysterious plunge from a hotel window one day in 1941, while under police guard, blew up a perfect rap against Murder Inc.'s Executioner Albert Anastasia. William O'Dwyer was Brooklyn district attorney at the time. Anastasia went free, and still is. Last week immigration authorities arrested one of Albert's five brothers (they all jumped ship to enter the U.S.) on illegal entry charges...
...Small Peanuts." The Senators quizzed Anthony Anastasia and his brother Albert, the rich Brooklyn mobster and onetime Murder, Inc. suspect who never stood trial, although District Attorney O'Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators...
...Arizona, Mrs. Ana (Anastasia Frohmiller, 59, popular, thrifty state auditor since 1926, the Democratic nomination for governor over five male aspirants. Her surprise victory made her a heavy favorite to beat Republican Howard Pyle in November;* Arizona has had only two Republican governors since it came into the Union...