Word: ericksons
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Carroll, who made a great show of earnest interest, was treated with vast politeness, too. (Said one baffled spectator: "They act like they was trying to give him the Congressional Medal.") But pudgy, fat-necked Gambler Frank Erickson, once assailed by the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as a "tinhorn and punk," ran into trouble. Enraged when Erickson, for approximately the twelfth time, insisted on his "constitutional rights," Senator McFarland yelled: "You're your own crime syndicate, aren...
...know what you call it," Erickson mumbled...
...have felt that way," Erickson admitted, obviously a bit puzzled but anxious to be a good fellow...
...Little Nervous. He was threatened with contempt once for failure to tell where he banked his money. He got up, walked to the end of the room and conferred a minute with a fellow as bulky as himself; it was his brother Leonard. Then Erickson answered, apologizing for "losing my memory-I was a little nervous." The brother, it turned out, was paid $20,000 a year. "Just to deposit money in the bank?" asked Tobey incredulously. "That's right," said Gambler Erickson...
...York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. "There is also betting at ball parks in Detroit, Cleveland, and Boston, the difference here being that local syndicates control the gambling in these latter three cities. The betting in the rest of the leagues is largely dominated by the Frank Erickson-Frank Costello group and its associates...