Word: fixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent five players to prison for terms ranging from six months to three years. He freed nine on probation, and he sent Master Fixer Salvatore Sollazzo to prison for an 8-to-16-year term. But before the shocked and shaken prisoners were led away, Judge Streit angrily underlined one inescapable fact: "The responsibility . . . must be shared not only by the crooked fixers and the corrupt players, but also by the college administrations, coaches and alumni groups...
Judge Saul S. Streit, in sentencing fixer Salvatore Soliazzo to eight to 16 years in jail and former players Ed Gard, Ed Warner, Al Roth, and Harvey Schaff to terms ranging from six months to three years, strongly criticized the nation's colleges yesterday for "commercialism and over-emphasis in arthritics and intercollegiate football in particular...
...April a Negro juror in circuit court told the judge something new about Osborne's way with juries. She had been approached by the courthouse janitor, a Negro named Matt Jones, who asked her to cast her ballot for Al Osborne's client in a damage suit. Fixer Jones, a thin, melancholy man with the air of a church deacon, was hauled into court for contempt, acknowledged that Osborne had asked him to see if he could get any Negroes on the jury to "help out"on the case...
...civilization . . . takes them as given, feels no personal responsibility for the society which has made them possible. He expects to use and exploit them. He prides himself on being the average man. If he admires anything outside himself, it is the 'smart operator,' the getter-by, the fixer...
...campaign manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month for "anything he can do" to help Hood's lumber business...