Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work with when he started his career in Manhattan's lower East Side. He used them to such smooth advantage in picking pockets that he became known as "Waxey" to his friends and the cops, took on the name of "Waxey Gordon" as he advanced through stickups, slugging, dope and murder charges into the big time. With Prohibition, Waxey muscled into a string of big New Jersey breweries, made his adopted name a byword in the world of Al Capone, "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, and wallowed in a life of $10 silk underwear and Pierce-Arrows...
...Atlanta. He got out, was caught in an office with $40,000 worth of "hot" watches, but released. Waxey dropped out of sight. Last November a New York detective got a mysterious telephone call: "If you want one of the biggest gangsters in the country, who is now in dope, look for your old friend W." The cops looked, found 63-year-old Waxey ostensibly a legitimate warehouse manager, actually a big-time heroin wholesaler...
...under-par 70 to take $2,250 first prize money (and to become the year's top money winner with $18,948.83). Later, he told newsmen it was not quite a new experience: two years ago, a man he knew (since "sent up the river for dope peddling or something") offered him a share "in cutting up $7,000" if he would finish no better than fourth in a West Coast tournament...
...Confidence Game. Guidance sessions (which sometimes bring more than 400 newsmen to the Press Club to hear a big wheel) often permit correspondents to seem wiser in print with "dope" stories than they really are. And the confidence game has also brought a great evil in its train: the camaraderie between officials and newsmen encourages Government officials to keep facts off the record which should be published, enables them to dodge responsibility for phony stories, permits unscrupulous bureaucrats and politicos to backstab opponents with impunity. Furthermore, even competent correspondents who are constantly being "guided" by off-the-record conferences occasionally...
...that the "real news of what is happening in the Capital ... is more & more limited to mouth-to-mouth circulation"), big policy stories follow a pattern. First there is the informed tip, carried by favored columnists and correspondents, next the background briefing, resulting in a rash of dope stories. Then, if the idea has been well received, comes the fanfare of formal announcement...