Word: fixers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warrant of arrest calling for the deportation of Salvatore Sollazzo to his native Italy was served on the accused fixer of college basketball games in New York yesterday...
This cute doublecross might well have worked, Hogan thought, if player "Y," assigned to pick up the money from the fixer, hadn't been even cuter. He told his chums, said Hogan, that he didn't have the money-"Yes, I got the $5,000 but I gave it back." After a long hassle, Lipman managed to get $300 instead of the $1,100 he thought was coming...
...Judge Landis"), to double the penalties of the bribery law. One suggestion, from Doxie Moore, commissioner of the National Professional Basketball League, candidly seeks to make honesty more profitable than dishonesty: let each college post a purse of $5,000 for any player who turns in a would-be fixer...
...became the President's principal adviser on political patronage. (Mrs. Alva Dawson works at the RFC as supervisor of all the agency's files.) Merl was also available for occasional odd jobs. When 1948 campaign time arrived, Merl was on hand as a sort of fixer and super errand boy for Harry Truman's crosscountry speaking tour...
...seemed likely to take Moscow, Steinhardt remained confident that the Russians would hang on. He laid in a 100-day food supply at an emergency refuge outside the city, an extra stock of surgical supplies, and prepared his staff for a long siege. President Roosevelt called him "a good fixer and boss trader." In 1942 F.D.R. switched him to Turkey, where Steinhardt was matched against Germany's crafty Franz von Papen in the diplomatic wrestle for Turkey's friendship. After the war, before coming to Ottawa, Steinhardt served the U.S. in troubled Czechoslovakia, then starting on its painful...