Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When professional thieves are arrested, they rely first on the police ("in hard times a dollar or two or even a drink may be enough"). More difficult arrangements are handled by a fixer who works through the complaining witness, the prosecutor (by trading cases), the bailiff (who forges vacating orders), or the judge. So efficient are fixers that Denver's Ed Blonger for many years kept all his clients out of jail. Chicago's celebrated pickpocket, Eddie Jackson, was arrested "thousands of times," convicted only four times, twice because of factional fights between his political friends...
...Queen" Helen Werner, longtime Los Angeles political fixer who was tried and freed by State and Federal authorities last year on charges of bribe taking (TIME, Dec. 21), was found unconscious by police on a Long Beach lawn, booked for drunkenness. She forfeited $10 bail...
...from behind some barrels at that point stepped a deputy and investigators from the local district attorney's office, seized Fixer O'Toole, seized the check which he had hastily torn in half, the $3,000 of marked bills. Also seized was a letter from Secretary of State Carr acknowledging settlement of McKesson & Robbins' liquor taxes...
...Federal Court last week Fixer Hogan was convicted, sentenced to a year & a day in prison, fined...
Franklin Roosevelt countered by organizing the Jeffersonian Party. Republicans nominated Honest Walt Trowbridge who spoke well but promised little. But "Buzz" Windrip raved like a madman, assisted in his ravings by his creepy publicity agent and fixer, Lee Sarason. His followers got publicity by making speeches in strange places, such as copper mines, fishing fleets, sporting houses. His supporters were organized as the Forgotten Men, sang a goofy campaign song ("Buzz and buzz"), beat up Reds, Jeffersonians, innocent bystanders, lumping them together as the Antibuzz. His program, based on sharing the wealth, was as emphatic as it was meaningless...