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...September 1950, Brooklyn's swart, smart Big Bookie Harry Gross lost a gambling empire but gained a fearsome and ironic political power. He used it for all it was worth. By talking his head off before a grand jury about cop-bribing during Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's regime, he exploded the biggest New York corruption scandal since the days of Jimmie Walker. Then, after a total of 77 blue-coats had been named as defendants or coconspirators, Gross managed, with consummate gall, to spring them...
...week, called as a witness at a departmental trial of five of the policemen (held only to determine whether they are to be discharged from the force and stripped of pension rights), Gross began to sing again. In doing so, he not only cast new embarrassment upon O'Dwyer, but managed to question the political purity of his archfoe, the crusading Brooklyn...
ROBERT J. DWYER Missoula, Mont...
...lived plainly even in his flush days, spending the greater part of his income for charity and local improvement. He still shares his modest income with the needy, and lets poor families live rent-free in houses he owns. Last week state officials and U.S. Ambassador William O'Dwyer came to praise him. Said Peters: "My only hope is that from this school will come a future governor or President...
...whom he has sent questionnaires-to be fired if they refused to tell all about their incomes. He added, threateningly, that he would quit if the President refused to act. He tramped on the President's toes even harder by sniping at Ambassador to Mexico Bill O'Dwyer and Truman's longtime pal and palace jester, General Harry Vaughan...