Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost by Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, at poker: considerable. Testifying last week at the income-tax-evasion trial of a Chicago gambler, they tried to remember their losses for certain periods. Abbott thought he had dropped from $20,000 to $25,000. Costello's contribution, he recalled, was only "around...
...opponents, Edwin W. Radley, president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of America, and Walter F. Costello, treasurer of the same organization, attacked the bill on legal grounds...
...public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced, Racket King Frank Costello's man-in-charge in Detroit. The police tapped Tamer's telephone wires and settled back expectantly...
...Calls Went East. As soon as the player hung up, Tamer was on the phone to New York. The Detroit police noted that many of his long-distance "information" calls went east; presumably he was relaying the dope to Boss Costello, whose office sets the national odds on pro hockey games...
...Profit. Eire's new Prime Minister John A. Costello abandoned Irish Airlines' plan to begin transatlantic service next week between Shannon and New York. Reason: the subsidies for the service were too high for Eire's poverty-stricken government...