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...been in office a fortnight, Brownell reached out to New York and booted Armand Chankalian out of his job as administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Myles J. Lane. Chankalian, veteran of seven years in his job, had turned out to be buddy-buddy with New York's fashionable Gangster Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Luchese. Snapped Brownell: "There will be no dealings with gangsters or racketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cleanup Man | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...Load of Furs. Gangster Francis Smith (who was hustled down under guard from Green Haven Prison, where he is doing seven-to-ten years for highjacking) matter-of-factly admitted doing a lot of shooting himself back in the 1930s. He told of having set himself up as a pier boss after ending a hitch in prison. It was easy. With three other hoodlums, he "decided to take a pier ... off two brothers by the name of Dillon, which we did. It was the Italian Line, Pier 59, North River. They went off without any trouble. They knew what would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tales of the Gotham Hoods | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...modeled after Mclieve, Shakespeare, and Chekov, but she just cannot handle a Brooklynese dialect in the American scene; and frankly, I don't see how anyone could. Harrison, too, has no trouble filling brief roles as a gouty husband, a jester, and an Uncle Vanva, but as an American gangster, he is a very brittle tough...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS | 1/9/1953 | See Source »

Albert Jordan, his former chauffeur, testified that he frequently drove Kenny to the home of a Jersey gangster and gambler named Charlie Yanowski, who was later stabbed to death with an ice pick. Kenny, it developed, also had a deep interest in the waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting last March with moonfaced, heavy-handed Anthony Strollo-prisonbound Joe Adonis' successor in the Jersey rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

From Walt Whitman to Lillian Smith, a distinguished company of artists have rated a place on Boston's official or unofficial blacklist. But to an ever-growing extent, their works are today being joined by such efforts as "Murderous Gangster" comics, "girlie" magazines, and over-sexy pocket-sized books...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

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