Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abbott and Costello...
...said against Wagner that he has the support of Tammany Hall and all the low associations that go with it. Those who charge this forget that sixteen Tammany district leaders, including those associated with Frank Costello, broke with Wagner to support Impelliteri for mayor. Wagner owes them nothing. It is also said that Wagner wants to use the mayorship not for the welfare of New York but as a stepping stone to his late father's seat in the United States Senate. Those who claim this forget that the mayor is so controversial and unthanked a figure...
There are few cities in the world where a handicapped child can receive such thorough and expert training, and few where a bright, industrious and resolute student can gain such a fine technical or scientific background. The New York public schools which produced such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer have also sent a stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year...
...Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman, best known as Frank Costello's psychiatrist; and Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic bigwig, Irwin Steingut...
Owner of the bar is William De Koning, onetime A.F.L. power and close friend of George Morton Levy, head of the Roosevelt Raceway. In 1951, Levy admitted to the Kefauver committee that he paid Frank Costello $60,000 over a four-year period to keep bookmakers out of the Roosevelt track. De Koning, it developed, is a capitalist of some dimensions as well as a big union man; he owns approximately $300,000 worth of stock in the Roosevelt and Yonkers tracks, has admitted yearly incomes as high as $125,000. De Koning resigned last May as chief of Long...