Word: halley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demanded Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley: "Based on your years of experience in politics in this city, did you believe it was necessary to get Costello's backing for your candidate?" Said Lipsky: "I did that. That's why I went...
...small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland's judicial-mannered Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt and New Hampshire's pious old Charles W. Tobey, no lawyer, who glared with Yankee outrage at uneasy officials...
...Groundwork. Counsel Halley had carefully laid the groundwork for his case against Frank Costello. First he called in a grey, glib Manhattan lawyer named George Morton Levy, who runs Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway (harness horses). Witness Levy admitted unabashedly that he regularly played golf with Costello, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and an internal revenue agent named Schoenbaum, and under Halley's persistent prodding, told a tale of Costello, the Boss of Bookies. Levy testified that in 1946 the New York racing commissioner threatened to revoke the track's license...
...Halley produced Costello's 1925 naturalization papers, noted that he had failed to state he had once used the name Frank Severio, and that he had denied he had been in the bootlegging business. At that, Halley whipped out Costello's testimony to the state liquor authority in 1947, admitting he had bootlegged from 1923 to 1926. Said Costello sulkily: "I didn't sell no liquor prior to '25. I might have expressed it the wrong way . . . But now, to my recollection, thinking it over . . ." Observed Senator Tobey: "Is not the man who made the false...
...taste of a Wall Street broker, seemed in fine spirits (his briefcase, he told reporters, contained nothing but "two bottles of whisky and a pair of pajamas"), and acted as though he had just dropped in to see some old pals. The Senators were equally polite. Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley let it be known that Costello was "a good witness," said he had given information on a dozen politicos of both parties, which was "full of meat," and had only balked at one mysterious "$64 question...