Word: giancana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bother us this way?" demanded Chicago's No. 2 hood of the reporter. The hood was Sam (Mooney) Giancana, general manager of Chicago mobdom, and at that particular moment last week he was doing nothing more than throwing a $20,000 wedding reception at the La Salle Hotel for his blonde daughter. The reporter was the Chicago Tribune's Sandy Smith, 39, who rarely misses the chance to crash a mob soiree. "Sure." pleaded Giancana, "some of us are ex-convicts. but are we supposed to surfer forever for a few mistakes we made in our youth? Look...
...Reporter Smith pocketed the guest list, copied from place cards, Mobster Giancana grumbled volubly on. He had a sneer for congressional investigating committees ("They couldn't catch me for a year; I like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn...