Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors of wealth -say Elmer has a heart of ice. The simplest way for the Federal Government to catch a crook is to look into his income-tax returns. Elmer Irey has done just that, long and efficiently. The story goes that big gamblers nowadays are careful to station a bookkeeper next to the croupier, to keep the figures straight for Elmer...