Word: halley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This pious gravity was not echoed, however, in New York. "Come home, Bill," jeered the tabloid Daily News in a one-line editorial, "nothing is forgiven." City Council President Rudolph Halley said he hoped that O'Dwyer would either come back voluntarily or be brought back to testify on the city scandals. But this was mostly talk. If O'Dwyer chooses to stay in Mexico-as he has strongly indicated he will-he cannot be brought back unless 1) he is charged with a specific crime, and 2) his Mexican friends can be persuaded that it is legally...
Kefauver could not have made his debut to better advantage. His role was that of an upright judge in a grim, real-life morality play. On one hand, aggressive little Rudolph Halley shrilled and barked at the forces of evil. On the other, Costello (only his hands), Greasy Thumb Guzik, Jim Moran and Anthony Anastasia defended themselves with all the genius and resources of Satan. In the background, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey wailed like a Greek chorus singing its lines from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. And right in the middle of the scene, calm, judicial, and unruffled...
Abject Apology. While he kept a sharp senatorial eye on his fan mail, deadlines & headlines, he was several cuts above the average for congressional investigators. In the eyes of the public the whole performance accrued to his personal credit. Actually, much of the investigative initiative was Rudy Halley's. Much of the evidence was old stuff contributed by friendly cops and newspapermen. The committee achieved one really important result. It brought the decent, dishwashing, baby-feeding public face to face with the curled lip of organized crime, and taught the people to vote against public officials who have condoned...
...blips on the political radar screen was the election in New York City of a vice crusader, Rudolph Halley...
Ever since Halley's comet flickered across the television screens last year, the U.S. has been discussing organized graft and crime. Still, the U.S. may not quite understand how organized crime can become. Subjected to the American genius for systematic administration, the casual bribe and the brutal threat are sublimated (and made more dangerous) by standardization of services, fixing of prices, replacement of piecework by a regular wage, centralization of authority and cost accountancy. A case in point is that of James J. Moran...