Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl in search of the beach goddess, Kicks, decide to kidnap a wealthy racketeer (Anthony Quinn). As it happens, Quinn is unredeemable. Desperate phone calls reveal that his wife and partner are cuckolding him ("For $200,000 you can keep the son of a bitch," she snarls). His Mafia associates refuse to extend their black hand; even his mother would rather help him with warm advice than cold cash...
...less than four decades ago in Madrid. Despite his counsel to "pass unnoticed," it has become the most controversial -and in many ways the most powerful -Spanish ecclesiastical invention since the Jesuits. Many Spaniards call it "Octopus Dei," and in Argentina it is widely believed to be a "holy mafia." Many Jesuits, in particular, consider it heretical in both concept and practice-a sort of Catholic freemasonry. Spain's Diplomat-Journalist Ismael Herráiz charges that Opus Dei already "controls the organisms that control Spanish economic policy and is in a hurry to appropriate the instruments of social...
...Here's Johnny" [April 28], you quote me as referring on the air half-facetiously to my attorney, Arnold Grant, as "Louie the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." You are wrong, and you owe an apology to one of the most respected attorneys in the profession. I have never mentioned Arnold Grant by name, or referred to him indirectly, on my program...
...here . . . my ulcers, my headaches, etc. NBC has been very generous in giving me time off during the year. Of course, it pays to have a good lawyer . . . you've heard of mine, 'Tony' [not Louie] the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." This was not said "half-facetiously." It was obvious farce, having no relationship to any person...
...rerunning of his old tapes during the strike, Carson's chief concern was his own future. Some time earlier, he had hired Show Biz Attorney Arnold Grant, to whom he referred on the air half-facetiously as "Louie the Shyster. He used to be prosecuting attorney in the Mafia's kangaroo court." In the demand for a new contract, Grant and Lawyer Louis Nizer reportedly asked for a base salary jump from $15,000 to $30,000 a week, plus a hefty cut of the Tonight earnings, which run to about $20 million in advertising billings a year...