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...period and had three convictions on gambling charges. In 1964, authorities allege, Colombo ascended to leadership of Joseph Profaci's Mafia family in Brooklyn after the "Banana War" power struggle between the Profaci family and the Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno family. In 1966, Colombo served 30 days for contempt after he refused to answer questions put to him by a grand jury. In addition to his perjury for lying to a state agency in applying for a real estate license, Colombo also faces a trial on charges of income tax evasion...
Playing North as cool, rather xenophobic and wry (as his research suggested), Ustinov showed his contempt for the colonials by referring to a certain "Colonel George Washingham." Asked about another rebel leader, Ustinov could not restrain himself from a coy, anachronistic gag. "John Hancock, sir, there can be no insurance of anything while he is active," he sniffed. At more serious moments, Ustinov dismissed the Boston Massacre as "a minor incident" and, when queried as to "the core of the quarrel between the Americans and your government," replied: "You regard it as a quarrel; I regard it more as slight...
...Administration deserves our disdain the "Students for a Just Peace" deserve our utmost contempt. By betraying their fellow students through providing more identifications they have sought to win support for themselves. Acceptance of their evidence by the Administration shall be construed to be nothing less than the University's complicity with rightist organizations...
...University and that of all its members is at stake, for where self-righteous force is the tyrant there is no freedom. And my life, and that of every peaceful citizen is at stake, for where the rights and freedoms which protect and insure life are held in contempt, where they can be trampled upon to establish the moral tyranny of a powerful few, there the life of free and peaceful men is gravely endangered. Being a Black American I am more keenly aware of these dangers than others may be. Black Americans have been robbed of the right...
...netting him more than $50,000 a year. He left that cozy career to accept an appointment from Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman as a special prosecutor to attack racketeers. He badgered rackets victims into testifying against their tormentors by threatening them with income tax and contempt of court charges, and was able to boast that he "never lost a witness" to underworld retribution. He rarely lost a case, either: at one point he ran up 72 convictions in 73 trials...