Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute to worthy causes, and to control as many Tammany politicians as he finds convenient...
...outside the know really knows just how many gambling joints in Florida and Nevada, how many slot machines in Louisiana, how many bookie joints and policy rackets in New York and New Jersey Frankie Costello* owns, operates, or controls-except that the number is large. But last week, New Yorkers could take a quick count of Costello-conscious politicians in the nation's biggest city...
Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, for the fifth straight year, by Motion Picture Herald. Runner-up: Betty Grable. No. 3: Abbott & Costello...
...woman began talking. The interpreter, translating, said that shortly before she was to have sailed for home, a doctor named Korzhinsky had approached her in the street and whispered: "You should not go to Russia-they will send you to Siberia." A little later a man named Leo Costello had lured her to a park bench on Riverside Drive and had deftly plunged a hypodermic needle into her arm. Then everything had gone black...
...Dail last week, up stood fiery young Deputy Con Lehane of Dublin. He asked Prime Minister John A. Costello if he was aware how the nation felt about having a "foreign monarch" on the Leinster House lawn. Costello made a careful reply: the statue would soon be removed; the deputies needed more room to park their cars. It was anticipated, he said, that the removal would begin this month...