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Ending a 25-year Teamster grip on Chicago's taxicabs was an uphill job. Local 777 has long been run as the private preserve of hard-eyed Hoodlum Joey Glimco, who is known around Chicago as "Jimmy Hoffa's Pal Joey." Glimco controlled not only the union but also the 48-local Teamster Joint Council and a fistful of "Windy City" rackets as well. His various activities earned him an estimated $70,000 a month...
...soon as the committee announced its aims, the money began rolling in. Cardinal Spellman gave $5,000. William D. Pawley, onetime ambassador to Peru and Brazil, contributed $25,000. Los Angeles' John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a Prohibition-era hoodlum who got kidnaped by other hoodlums in 1933 and knows all about ransoms sent...
...under any circumstances, be an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces," he said. "This Government will do everything it possibly can to make sure that there are no Americans involved in any actions inside Cuba." He pointed out that the Justice Department had just indicted Rolando Masferrer, onetime hoodlum leader of a pro-Batista strong-arm squad, for "plotting an invasion of Cuba from Florida in order to establish a Batista-like regime...
...Hoodlum Priest. Violent, probing story of a priest and a condemned...
...Chicago squared off for the Stanley Cup finals, the season's biggest winner turned out to be the family of the late Millionaire Chicago Grain Merchant James Norris, founder of hockey's richest dynasty. One son, Spectator-Sportsman James D. Norris (deposed front man for the hoodlum-hampered International Boxing Club), is co-owner of the Black Hawks, while another son, Bruce, and Daughter Marguerite are co-owners of the Red Wings. In the new, wide-open competition of professional hockey, the Norris clan has inherited a rewarding family responsibility...