Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naming four of O'Dwyer's high police officials (all now retired) who had never been publicly accused in connection with the gambling scandal. Witness Gross testified that he had not only bribed Chief Inspector August W. Flath, Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner Frank C. Bals, onetime head of a special "mayor's squad," and Chief of Detectives William T. Whalen, but also former Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien, a man of whom O'Dwyer said in 1950: "I believe Bill O'Brien is as honest a man as I have ever known...
...When Gross was asked why these big shots had not been named in the indictment last year, he answered: "To quote Judge Leibowitz, maybe some money changed hands." He swore he had testified about all of them before the grand jury, and had later asked an assistant D.A. if the high police officials were being left alone out of favoritism. He had been told: "Don't be a lawyer...
Before he had done for the week, Gross mentioned nearly 200 different policemen, and painted a shocking and fascinating picture of the methods by which he virtually controlled whole police divisions in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens at the peak of his career. During 1947, '48 and '49, he poured out $1,000,000 annually in graft and gifts...
Professional wrestlers, the grunting, groaning showpieces of the most thoroughly faked U.S. sport, are maligned men, according to Dr. Charles Davis, physician for the California State Athletic Commission. Wrestling fans are apt to picture their hippodroming heroes as gross, stupid, out of condition, and in general, slobs. Not so, says Dr. Davis-at least not so on the fitness side. Thanks to continual training for weekly and sometimes nightly bouts, says Davis, wrestlers keep in the pink of physical condition. What's more, many of them are in good mental shape as well. Last week, after five years...
...Last year his Ekco Products Co. sold 375,000 egg beaters, 10½ million kitchen knives, 2,500,000 rubber-ended bottle stoppers, 1.5 million pots & pans and 12 million can openers. Disguised under such brand names as A. & J., Flint and Ovenex, Ekco Products brought in a 1951 gross of $35 million...