Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, after U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years for income-tax evasion, Waxey had to start all over again in 1940. He dabbled in black-market sugar and was settled for a year in Atlanta. He got out, was caught in an office with $40,000 worth of "hot" watches, but released. Waxey dropped out of sight. Last November a New York detective got a mysterious telephone call: "If you want one of the biggest gangsters in the country, who is now in dope, look for your old friend W." The cops looked, found...
Mississippi's waspish John Rankin waggled his white mane with satisfaction. Said he to the House of Representatives last week: "This regulation is ... the first thing that has brought justice in freight rates to the people of the South and West in the last 50 years." Editorialized the Atlanta Journal: "It has been a long and valiant fight [which] has resulted in a triumph for justice and fair play...
...Bell. Starting as a $50-a-month trainee, Dumas rose through the traffic department, claims to know "personally 90% of the 54,000 people who work for Southern Bell." One of those he met was Cleo Craig, for three years A. T. & T.'s long-lines boss in Atlanta...
...telephones increased from 1.7 million to 3.5 million. When Dumas moves into A. T. & T.'s No. 2 spot in New York (estimated salary: $115,000 a year), he will bring with him two reminders of the South. One is the Confederate flag that he keeps in his Atlanta office. The other is his drawl. Says he: "I don't know whether they will understand my rice-water talk up in New York. I talk like I have grits in my mouth...
Died. Hugh Casey, 38, burly onetime relief pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who set a record in the 1947 World Series when he was called from the bullpen in six of the seven games; by his own hand; in Atlanta, Ga. Depressed by his fall from big-league to semi-pro ball, by a messy paternity suit, a $6,759 tax lien and a reported heart ailment, the onetime "Fat Fireman of Flatbush" telephoned to his estranged wife, told her "I'm all dead inside," then, as she listened, shot and killed himself...