Word: bribers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxing Judge Bert Grant, 51, was indicted in New York City on charges of taking bribes up to $100 to influence his decisions in five bouts. His alleged briber: Manager Herman ("Hymie the Mink") Wallman, a Manhattan furrier and reputed front man for Frankie Carbo, the underworld commissar of boxing. Wallman's tigers won all the bouts; Judge Grant is accused of making sure they did. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended both men, banned Wallman's fighters, including Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Middleweight Randy Sandy and Featherweight Ike Chestnut...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...