Word: bagman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life. We must do it or fail to survive...
Woody has now discovered a gold mine: the movie business. Last year he wrote a wacky feature (What's New Pussycat?) that plotzed so many people that it has already grossed more than $10 million. And in Tiger Lily, this baby-faced bagman has brought off the hat trick. He has made a movie without spending money-in fact, he has made a movie without even making a movie. For about $66,000, advanced by Producer Henry Saperstein, Allen bought up a ludicrously lousy Japanese thriller that was made in glorious TohoColor and should have been confiscated as contraBond...
...said Reynolds, "was the bagman in this thing from beginning to end. The bagman is the man pushed around for having been the medium ... I was low man on the totem pole." Of the $35,000, Reynolds said, he kept $10,000 for himself, and "Bobby told me that $15,000 was to go for the presidential campaign and the other $10,000 was to go for political purposes as he and Mr. McCloskey saw fit-mostly Bobby." Reynolds said that Baker further told him to "stick the money in a bank you don't ordinarily use, so those...
...victuals. Mitchell was arrested and charged with agreeing to a $20,000 bribe from two real estate men who wanted a variance in a zoning rule in order to build a multiple-dwelling housing development. The brothers told the cops, turned the 20 grand over to Mitchell's bagman in a Manhattan hotel room while detectives waited outside...