Word: crookeder
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Latching onto the 1,000 employees of Roto-Broil Corp. (electric broilers), one crooked local was so helpful as to allow the management (1956 gross: $10 million) to keep about $23,000 in check-off dues. In most other instances Dio-controlled "unions" were nothing beyond fronts for extortion thugs...
Four-Word Manual. When newspapers cover business with top reporters and the uninhibited news judgment on which-in every other field-newsmen pride themselves, they are usually rewarded with heavy readership. The Philadelphia Bulletin's Financial Editor J. (for Joseph) A. Livingston, whose syndicated, thrice-weekly column is carried...
Appointed, soon after South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case told of a $2,500 campaign-contribution offer from a natural-gas lobbyist, a Special Senate Committee worked on and off (mostly off) for 14 months, interviewed 146 witnesses, appealed to Senators, press and public to come forth with...
Squat, pudgy Mickey Cohen, 45, proved a man of few words when pressed on his friendliness for Billy Graham ("I just hope and feel the feeling is likewise between Billy and I")* or his past weakness for killing people ("I have killed no man that in the first place didn...
With the election of crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines's big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire...