Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likes to carry a huge bankroll. The Hines money is supposed to come from insurance and contracting business run by Sons James Jr. and Philip (Harvard). Tom Dewey last week set out to prove that a great deal of it came from a regular levy on Harlem's numbers bankers. Leaning toward the jury box and talking in his customary confidential tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player...
...dusky Harlem last week Numbers continued flourishing, crowded dockets with offenders...
...that Father Divine and his Harlem Heaven have moved into Hyde Park the name should be changed to "Hy-de-ho" Park...
...wanted to get "the real bosses." Prosecutor Dewey jailed some small racketeers, some big ones, notably Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, swart Sicilian kingpin of Manhattan's prostitute trust. Elected District Attorney by grateful New Yorkers last year, Mr. Dewey has since been nosing into the hierarchy of Harlem's numbers games (lotteries), a one-time $100,000,000-a-year racket ruled by the late No. 1 Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz'') Flegenheimer...
...discover that Mr. Spencer got nothing for his share-which he claims to be the case-the liquidators indicated they might oppose its transfer. Meanwhile, Father Divine found his town house problems settled when some of his followers bought him (for $24,000) a brace of connecting houses on Harlem's outskirts. Thrown into one, they contain 50 rooms, a private telephone system, rubber-tiled flooring, modernistic plumbing. A neighbor: "It will be nice to be so near heaven...