Word: ison
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...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 the ring's "take" for the previous...