Word: finks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bookmakers labeled the Dagenham caper a "builder play," and have occasionally taken a licking from the same technique. The most notable builder play took place in 1932 at Agua Caliente race track in Mexico. Staged by West Coast Gamblers Baron Long and Harry Fink, it boosted the odds on a horse called Linden Tree from a logical 7 to 10 to almost 10 to 1. By betting Linden Tree heavily with U.S. bookmakers, Long and Fink made a killing...
...Folk Fink...
...Harry the Ox") Hopp. When Muller expropriated the coat for himself, Hopp got hopping mad, pulled a gun on Paulie and was rewarded for his temerity with a beating that put him in the hospital for a month. It was enough to turn Harry the Ox into Harry the Fink: he provided the police with sufficient evidence against Muller and the Black Gang to bring them to trial. Last week a motley audience of shills, pimps, whores, strippers and bullyboys gathered in Hamburg's dingy criminal court to hear sentence pronounced on the Black Gang. Found guilty...
...Macleod resigned from the Cabinet last October, he went off to edit the liberal Tory Spectator, and for his nom de plume chose Chesterton's Quoodle. The name proved all too apt. Last week, in the wake of an embarrassing disclosure, many Tories were cursing Quoodle as a fink whose loose tongue was damaging Conservative chances in the forthcoming general election...
McCann questioned why no hue and cry was raised when the legislature authorized the construction 20 months ago. The issue lay dormant until last fall. At a meeting of Organization Ten, a Cambridge civic group, Benjamin Fink, chief engineer of the MDC, assured the 400 members present that there was nothing to worry about. After Fink spoke, Bernays--a new resident of the city and the country's leading public relations man--denounced the MDC representative as "a stooge" and urged an aggressive attack to combat the building of the underpasses. At this meeting were laid the seeds...