Word: mobster
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...Gold Medal books is becoming a dangerous competitor for his big brothers, Bantam, Avon, Signet, and Pocketbooks, Inc. Gold Medal specializes in the facts of life at the expense of plausibility, and is making a big success of it in the Square. Sample titles: "Satan Is A Woman," "I, Mobster," "Women's Barracks." Titles like "Forever Amber" and "Star Money" (at 50 cents apiece) are of course, old favorites...
...After Uncle Tom went to prison, Jim did the best he could to keep old Tom's Kansas City machine running. His best wasn't bad enough. The Citizens' Association Reform government won control of city hall. A lot of old Pendergast lieutenants joined up with mobster Charlie Binaggio...
...money by drafting Broadway mugs and con men into Santa Claus suits, sets them to taking up a sidewalk collection, supposedly for an old ladies' home. He also supplies the old dolls, installs them with a flourish in a vacant gambling casino and starts cleaning up until another mobster (Lloyd Nolan) hijacks both his swag and his old ladies...
...take is staggering. An average slot machine, the committee estimated, clears $50 a week; a mobster who has placed 200 slots, a comparatively modest effort, can assure himself a gross of $5.000 a week. One of the eight big policy wheels in the Negro section of Chicago netted $1,000,000 a year. A gambling casino in New Jersey cleared $255,271 in a good year, one in Florida, $205,000. Tony Giz-zo, a mobster in Kansas City, admitted that his little newsstand handbook netted him more than $100,000 a year. In all, the committee estimated "conservatively...
Then in Chicago, another committee investigating team learned from a mobster that Harry Russell was a longtime partner of Tony Accardo himself. Later, checking the records of the Erie & Buffalo policy wheel, the Chicago team found a 1949 income-tax report made out by Accardo and Guzik as partners. They were getting $278,666 from the wheel, the report showed, but investigators were more interested in another item further down. The partners had claimed a loss of $7,252 on the S & G Syndicate in Florida. That frugal claim was the first solid proof that Russell had muscled...