Word: dense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Le Van Vien bought the police from absentee Chief of State Bao Dai for $1,000,000 in 1954; the general still sends out big gleanings from his prostitution profits to his old benefactor, thereby helping Bao Dai to live in sunshine and sloth at Cannes on a total...
Convinced that Premier Diem, with his accent on austere morality, is going to be in power for a while, Saigon's powerful hoodlum sect, the Binh Xuyen, agreed meekly last week to abandon its golden empire of sin, at least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression...
Each day the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen) pays the Vietnamese government about $10,000 in "taxes," and gets in return the monopoly control of Saigon's brothels, gambling casinos and opium dens (which are called "clinics of disintoxication"). The Binh Xuyen's enterprises are one of...
In his thirteen years on the Cambridge police force, Trodden was so clean even the racketeers respected him. Last year, he was active in exposing and defeating one of the grimier of the State's politicos, former Attorney General Frank Kelly. For this, Trodden was made chief of the criminal...
That did it. The old lions of the movie industry-Nick and Joe Schenck, the Skourases, the Warners, the Cohns, Freeman and Zukor-came roaring out of their dens, heads up, alertly sniffing the trade winds.