Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from...
...passed on his death to Luciano and has since been divided among several large rings, hundreds of small independent "bankers." Setting up temporary headquarters one evening^ in upper Riverside Drive's historic, city-owned Claremont Inn, now closed for the winter, Mr. Dewey sent 70 detectives swarming over Harlem after the city's biggest known policy ring, run by two West Indian Negroes named Pompeii and Ison. Bankers, slip girls, runners, collectors were carted to the Inn for examination in a nightlong stream. By morning 70 of them, including Ison but not Pompeii, were in hand, plus...
...became director of the New York Music School Settlement, oldest of its kind in the U. S. The school at first had only a half-dozen teachers, about 50 students. It now employs 90 teachers, has an enrollment of over 1,000. In 1912 Mannes founded a settlement in Harlem out of gratitude to Negro Teacher Douglas, often gave recitals for Negroes at Hampton Institute, still serves as a trustee for colored Fisk University in Tennessee...
...Dutch Schultz was ambushed in Newark in 1935, the winning number in his Harlem game...
Legend is that the numbers game was invented in the office of the New York Sun, was spread by its routemen throughout the city. The game rooted fastest in the Spanish section of Harlem, where the residents were steeped in the lore of lotteries. From there it spread into the adjacent colored quarter, where it has kept a large part of the population poor ever since. Metropolitan Life has had trouble with wholesale lapsing of insurance policies throughout Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure...