Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was arrested in September 1950, Brooklyn's swart, smart Big Bookie Harry Gross lost a gambling empire but gained a fearsome and ironic political power. He used it for all it was worth. By talking his head off before a grand jury about cop-bribing during Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's regime, he exploded the biggest New York corruption scandal since the days of Jimmie Walker. Then, after a total of 77 blue-coats had been named as defendants or coconspirators, Gross managed, with consummate gall, to spring them...
...method was simple. Despite the tears of Brooklyn District Attorney Miles F. McDonald and shrieks of rage from Brooklyn Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz- who threatened to send Gross to jail "for a thousand years"-he just clammed up on the witness stand. Having brought the cops to trial en masse, the prosecution was barred by laws against double jeopardy from trying to bring them to book again. Gross went off, bloody but unbowed, to serve out twelve years in City Prison...
Uninhibited Encore. Last week, called as a witness at a departmental trial of five of the policemen (held only to determine whether they are to be discharged from the force and stripped of pension rights), Gross began to sing again. In doing so, he not only cast new embarrassment upon O'Dwyer, but managed to question the political purity of his archfoe, the crusading Brooklyn...
Delegate Ernest Gross gave the U.S. answer. "I have been instructed," said he with embarrassment, "to abstain." Britain and France voted against the Tunisian plea; Soviet Russia, playing to the hilt its role as the champion of the downtrodden colonials, voted...
...last week the company owned a twelve-story New York building, was advertising to the tune of a million dollars a year, and had 1,630 U.S. dealers and a subsidiary in Canada. By the end of this year it expects to sell more than 50,000 Necchi machines, gross $10 million and have a firm grip on 10% of the sewing-machine market...