Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearing room in Washington reeked with the ugly smell of shakedown, of labor hoodlums sweating behind the Fifth Amendment, of sordid fear, as testimony on the Chicago restaurant protection racket went into its second week. To the members of the Senate's labor-management investigating committee, it was quite clear that they had caught the scent of one of the dirtier trails in labor history...
DENVER POST, fifth day after the landing...
...selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government? Such a performance made a "mockery" of the Fifth Amendment, snapped Chairman John McClellan, and he threatened the often-arrested but never-convicted Accardo with a charge of contempt of Congress...
Questioned in the witness chair about mob-union connections, Teitelbaum tried to duck under the Fifth Amendment and the First, Sixth and Sixteenth. Back in River Forest, glued to their TV sets for the Chicago telecast of the hearings, Tony Accardo's neighbors began to catch a glimpse of how he earns his living...
...Thorpe Hanover close behind. Only a final burst to second place by Tommy Winn's Flying Time marred a straight one-two finish for Miller's Tar Heel colts. Their first and third took $67,310.62 of the total purse. Also in the money in fourth and fifth place: Adios' sons Raider Frost and Adios Paul. Quipped the New York News's Wes Gaffer: "One more stakes victory and Trainer Del Miller owns Roosevelt Raceway...