Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming office Jan. 1, 1930, Sachem Grain proceeded to set an impressive record for ineffectuality. He has not yet made known who shot Gambler Arnold Rothstein (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928) or Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond (TIME, Oct. 20). He was lax in prosecuting unscrupulous bondsmen, dock racketeers and ambulance chasing lawyers. He failed to obtain an indictment in the case of retired Magistrate Ewald, suspected of buying his judgeship for $10,000, which was later thrice tried unsuccessfully (TIME, Feb. 2). Of 623 grand jury indictments for grand larceny sent to his office, only 32 were tried and convicted. From...
...defense was simple. Mr. Guzik, it argued, was not a "vagrant." He was a gambler. Do not Vice President Curtis and Governor Emmerson both attend race meetings? May it not be presumed that they make wagers at the race tracks? Did not Gambler Guzik own a fine home not a block away from State's Attorney Swanson's? Why, so far from being a reprehensible "vagrant," Mr. Guzik was a "credit" to the community. After brief deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "That's fine!" cried Mr. Guzik. "I knew you gentlemen would...
...started work in Bellevue Hospital, but abandoned that career for reporting. His first newspaper job was with the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Year later he changed to the American (Hearst). There he had a general assignment, roving from 14th St. to 96th St. He covered the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal (1912), the Black Tom explosion (1916), the Whittemore gang murders (19-26), numerous...
Jane's sister Lily refused to degrade herself by working, instead became the mistress of a Jewish gambler, enjoyed her self no end. Jane envied her, hoped to be seduced by Bryan, but had no luck. He went away, and the wily Ernest got her. Jane did the sensible thing, married Er nest, regretted it when Bryan came back. She was glad when Ernest was drowned. Bryan was kind to her, liked her, but be came alarmed when he discovered she was determined to be had. Wisely he went away forever, leaving Jane, sorrowing but sensible, to marry faithful Fred...
...Diamond shooting closely paralleled the still unsolved murder two years ago of Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler-racketeer whose henchman and would-be successor Diamond was. Both were assailed in a hotel bedroom. Both staggered out, were carried by the same doctor to the same hospital, to the same room. Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code...