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...religion, and hope itself are derided in the mad figures inhabiting the horse. One is a naked but derby-hatted fellow named Maloney the Areopagite, who is writing the life of Saint Puce, a flea that was born in Christ's armpit. Another is John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West...
...indictment at home on malfeasance charges, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer the committee's questions. Then Langley sat pasty-faced while the committee played tape recordings (taken by Star Witness James Elkins, a Portland racketeer) identified as Langley's conversations with Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin. A Langley sample: "So the prostitution is out. And now it's no good, and we don't want it anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only way you're going to do any good is cards, high dice. Like...
Elkins had testified that he had entered into a Portland vice partnership with Seattle Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin and that they were acting as the rackets' representatives of their good friend, West Coast Teamsters' Boss Frank Brewster. Elkins said he had given Maloney and McLaughlin $20,000 in eight months as their cut of the operation, but they had nonetheless decided he was holding out. For his part, Elkins thought he was being doublecrossed by Maloney and McLaughlin-and he had done something about it. He had wired their hotel rooms and made tape recordings...
...Official Message. Thus, Elkins said, he had heard Maloney. McLaughlin and Langley plotting to have Teamsters' Oregon Representative Clyde Crosby go to Republican Mayor Fred Peterson to urge the ouster of a police chief who had refused to cooperate. Said Elkins: "They were trying to figure a way or something that the mayor could hang his hat on to remove the chief of police. It didn't occur to them that [the mayor] might be honest, or not go along with them...
Blubber & Blabber. Langley was duly elected, and soon confided to Elkins-testified Elkins-that he was going to split the gambling payoff with Gambler Maloney. But Maloney turned out to be a first-class bungler and, said Elkins, the Teamsters sent in another man to help with the Portland racketeering. He was Seattle Gambler Joseph Patrick McLaughlin, alias Joe McKinley. The difference between Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin was explained to Elkins by none other than the Teamsters' Frank Brewster. Testified Elkins: Brewster once said that " 'Tom Maloney is a blubberheaded, blabbermouthed...