Word: fingold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Republicans had hoped for a strong state administration ticket to bolster the party in outlying districts, and were disappointed when Coolidge and Ayer gained the nomination for governor and attorney general respectively. Ayer won over Fingold, famous for smashing the Revere rackets four years ago; even staunch Republicans admit, off the record, that Fingold would have strengthened the ticket immeasurably. Democrats, incidentally, are pointing to this case as an example of discrimination on the part of Republican primary voters...
...Newspapers just have to keep hitting and hitting at these guys if we're going to get rid of them," said Fingold. One of the State's leading racket-busters, he recently testified before a Senate subcommittee on nation-wide crime syndicates...
...only let the people know what's going on, you're on the right road to decency and morality," Fingold remarked in his impromptu speech...
...Fingold, who last year bustled an allegedly corrupt police force in Revere, cited examples of police-gambler fixes. A Boston numbers big shot blanket $1,320,000 in the year before he was arrested, Fingold said, even though his 40-man office was across the street from the police station and court...
...Fingold remembered when he saw police movies of undercover gambling activities. "The most disgusting part of the film were the pictures of those sworn to uphold the law, not bowing but genuflecting to these racketeers...