Word: crookedest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
...with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.-the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance was in 1934 in Life Begins...
...going to be raised." Always more docile than the Senate, the House Agricultural Committee voted (12-to-6) in favor of $30,000,000 drought loans for feed & seed after squashing a $60,000,000 proposal of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Aswell. His comment: "The crookedest, cheapest political action I've ever had thrust in my face. ... I thought I was dealing with honorable gentlemen." Meanwhile the G.O.P. moved to set up at Des Moines an "agricultural division" of its National Committee to try to win and hold the farm vote...