Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami Herald's Associate Editor John D. Pennekamp: "Juvenile criminals are as bad as adult criminals-or worse. Maybe if they see it in the papers, the juveniles will believe it themselves." The strict Florida law preventing courts and police from divulging juvenile names recently led a young hoodlum to jeer at Miami Daily News Reporter Damon Runyon Jr.: "You can't write about us; we know what the law says...
Into separate Manhattan jails last week went five more hoodlums accused by the FBI of participating in the acid attack on Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Aug. 27 et ante). The gang, whose records range from gun-carrying to robbery to narcotics, was headed by Johnny Dio (born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been...
...attack, according to FBI agents, had been planned last Easter when Dio called a meeting in a lower Manhattan candy store, announced that he needed someone to toss some acid. Storekeeper Gondolfo Miranti relayed the request to Bakeryman Domenico Bando, who sought out Joseph Carlino. Carlino dredged up Hungry Hoodlum Abraham Telvi to carry out the attack. Telvi was given a bottle of sulphuric acid, stationed on a Manhattan side street and told to await a Mr. Marshall, whose wife wanted him burned because he was unfaithful. Go Between Miranti shadowed Riesel to Lindy's Restaurant, spotted...
After four months of tireless investigation, the law last week finally pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
...streets, a car pulled up and an unidentified man urged him to get in and be taken to the airport so he could lie low in Florida. He got in, but managed to leap out safely when the car kept going in the wrong direction. Then the hoodlum fled to a hideout in Youngstown, Ohio. In July Telvi returned to New York, but he was still "too hot." A few days later, in a lower East Side street, police found his body, apparently dumped from a car, with a bullet wound in the back of the head...