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...racketeer "Lucky" Luciano. When Dewey became D.A. of New York County, Hogan stayed on as his assistant, stepping up when Dewey quit in 1941. Though modest and low-keyed in public, Hogan brought to trial an impressive gallery of offenders including basketball fixers, TV quiz-show cheats and many corrupt public officials. He resigned last December because of poor health. Only the month before, he had been re-elected to an unprecedented ninth term...
...Your coverage of The Great Gatsby [March 18] omitted a great irony in the production of the movie. In his novel, F.S. Fitzgerald removes the facade of wealth by portraying how it can corrupt morals, foster waste and breed human carelessness. Absurd how his admonishment to "beware the American dream" is so carelessly discarded by the makers of this extravaganza. I question if they did indeed read the book...
...thought the U.S. had laws punishing indecent exposure and immorality. Apparently there are none or nobody cares to enforce them. How corrupt American society is becoming...
...industrialized world, the worst inflations generally accompanied wars or revolutions, or struck countries that had tried to live beyond their means. Inflation might be endemic in some nations of Latin America and Asia, but the rich countries could smugly dismiss that as the consequence of chronically weak or corrupt governments...
...publication for two months so that the FBI could look into the evidence for possible federal violations. Despite the embarrassment to Lugar, the younger Pulliam decided the story could wait no longer. "It's more important," he told Star Managing Editor Bob Early, "to clean up a corrupt police department than to worry about winning an election...