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After Mr. Dewey gets Dixie, doxie and Weinberg back to Manhattan, tabloid editors expect a trial as spectacular as the trial last year of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano for his prostitute trust...
Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions...
...Special Prosecutor, Mr. Dewey has not unearthed any more conclusive proof of the unregenerate nature of Tammany Hall than in his speech last Sunday in which he showed that Albert Marinelli, Tammany leader in the 2nd Assembly District and New York County Clerk, was a personal friend of "Lucky" Luciano and actually went on a party with him in Chicago while Luciano was hiding from Dewey's investigation. To this accusation, Mr. Marinelli, a shadowy figure with a large estate on Long Island, has no comment to make, and it is indeed hard to see how there is any more...
...this case she comes clean and in company with the district attorney, Humphrey Dogart, turns on her one-time employer. And if you go to the film, she's going to make you boil at that onetime employer, the screen replica of Lucky Luciano and all his crew. The producers and actors put teeth in this...
Except as a huge source of criminal funds and as a possible lead to some su-per-boss like Luciano, Prosecutor Dewey was no more interested in policy gambling than he had been in prostitution. But though he never expected to wipe out prostitution, he did announce that he might abolish policy in the only way it ever could be abolished-by showing betters what a "crooked gyp racket...