Word: chankalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he had been in office a fortnight, Brownell reached out to New York and booted Armand Chankalian out of his job as administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane. Chankalian, veteran of seven years in his job, had turned out to be buddy-buddy with New York's fashionable Gangster Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Luchese. Snapped Brownell: "There will be no dealings with gangsters or racketeers...
...good part of the social rise of Three-Finger Brown proved to have been accomplished with the aid of tiny (5 ft., 118 lbs.) Armand Chankalian, administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Lane. Chankalian testified that not until 1950 had he come to realize that his good friend, Tommy Luchese, had so lurid a past. Then, said Chankalian, he had told Luchese, "I introduced you to some very nice people, and I owe an obligation to them . . . I'm sorry, I can't see you any more . . ." Informed that his car had been seen in front of Luchese...
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