Word: blackjacking
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Angered by delays to his housing program, Wilson Watkins Wyatt last week frantically unwrapped his emergency powers. He rolled them into a blackjack and laid about him. The chief casualty was Chicago's Tucker Corp., an innocent bystander...
Bloody Action. But NHA cried: "Houses are more important than autos!" Down clonked the Wyatt blackjack on Tucker and WAA. To WAA went a "directive" ordering it to comply with NHA wishes. (WAA appealed the order to Attorney General Tom Clark...
When NHA asked RFC to lend Lustron $32 million, RFC also balked. RFC said that Lustron was putting up too little of its own cash. Promptly Wilson Wyatt twirled his blackjack again. He threatened to lay into RFC with another "directive...
...another result of the raids-part of a nationwide drive-was not so pleasant. One car salesman was grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...
...wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...