Word: korshak
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Oilman Ray Ryan, another member of the Stolkin-Koolish syndicate which bought control of RKO a month ago. Ryan's name had cropped up in the Kefauver hearings when it developed that he and Racketeer Frank Costello had an interest in the same oil lease. ¶Sidney Korshak, a Chicago lawyer who had helped out in the syndicate's negotiations with Howard Hughes and was hired at $15,000 a year as a labor-relations consultant for RKO. At one point in his career, according to the testimony of "Cherry Nose" Gioe, Korshak had helped to arrange parole...