Word: loughran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agents uncovered the extortion ring. Butcher Manny Seligman, for one, explained how it worked. He had been summonsed for short weighing by an inspector from the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and he turned up as ordered at bureau headquarters. There, suave, mouse-browed Director Frederick J. Loughran and Inspector Bert Smith told him about a "new system." Seligman was simply to pay Loughran "a couple of thousand dollars" to kill the summons. When he protested, an inspector told him: "If you don't pay up, you will have to give 16 ounces to the pound, and you know...
...compromise, Seligman promised to pay a $60 monthly bribe, was assured that he would no longer be bothered with summonses; if by chance he was ticketed by another inspector who was not in on the take, Seligman was told that Loughran would overlook it. In this way, according to testimony, Loughran and some of his crooked aides, helped by President Emanuel Lapidus of the 600-member Salesmen and Poultry Workers Union, swung butchers into line, wrapped up what Investigator Kaplan rates as "millions of dollars" over a period of at least 18 months. The butchers in the "club," some...
Give & Take. Union President Lapidus copped a guilty plea on charges of extortion. Boss Loughran (who ironically had won a reputation for his exposes of rackets in retail businesses) was haled before a county grand jury, fired from his $8,250-a-year job and arrested on charges of extortion. Investigator Kaplan promised that the butcher expose was only beginning. "The protection club was all over New York," said he. "There are 5,326 butchers in the city. You will have to guess at how many were involved, especially in depressed areas, where it hurts the little housewives the most...
...Sick's Stadium sensed that it might be getting its money's worth. There was World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson on the canvas. Perhaps this amateur challenger named T. Peter Rademacher had a professional punch after all. It was all so surprising that Referee Tommy Loughran was as flustered as Floyd. He forgot to count...
Rear Window (Paramount), just possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock, is the movie equivalent of what boxing circles call "the handkerchief trick." The trick, as Philadelphia's Tommy Loughran used to play it, is simply to plant both feet on a standard-size pocket handkerchief, fold both hands behind the back, and fight a full three-minute round against a free-moving opponent without once taking the feet off the handkerchief...